UFOMYST
CaseOval2009

Mineral, VA, USA

I was walking outside of my house, when I was looking up to see moon, when I saw a oval shaped thing about 10 times the size of a star.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-12-07
Where
Mineral, VA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
38.011, -77.909 · exact
Slug
oval-over-mineral-va-2009-305126
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Mineral, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 82 sightings in 2009.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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