Gordonsville, VA, USA
A oval shaped object flew by close to the ground without making noise.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-07
- Where
- Gordonsville, VA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 38.137, -78.188 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-gordonsville-va-2020-73b1a4
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Gordonsville, VA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 106 reports came from Virginia in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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