UFOMYST
CaseSphere2016

Gainesville, VA, USA

The sun had a ring around it. It was interesting so I took 2 pictures of it seconds apart. As I look at the pictures,I notice a dot ins

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-02
Where
Gainesville, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
38.796, -77.614 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-gainesville-va-2016-c1dac1
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 14 documented reports from Gainesville, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 120 sightings in 2016.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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