UFOMYST
CaseSphere2013

Chesaprake, VA, USA

Orange object over Chesapeake

Report quality: Low36/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-23
Where
Chesaprake, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3:00 minutes
Geo
—
Slug
sphere-over-chesaprake-va-2013-7943a2
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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Chesaprake, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 205 sightings in 2013.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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