Ruther Glen, VA, USA
Orange ball went from W to E, and after it passed, the sky over Bowling Green, flashed like heat lightning for 20 minutes.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-06-16
- Where
- Ruther Glen, VA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 37.929, -77.456 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-ruther-glen-va-2017-64fa9c
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Ruther Glen, VA.
- This case is one of 104 Virginia reports filed in 2017.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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