UFOMYST
CaseSphere2008

Mendota, VA, USA

Sighting of an anomalous object for 5 hours. ((NUFORC Note: Probably a sighting of Sirius, I suspect. PD))

Report quality: Low28/100

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: 18000s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2008-10-31
Where
Mendota, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
about 5 hours
Geo
36.711, -82.302 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-mendota-va-2008-349275
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

  • Mendota, VA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 100 reports came from Virginia in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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