UFOMYST
CaseSphere2007

Salem, VA, USA

Green sphere visible over I-81 North in Roanoke County, Virginia at about 18:30 on December 23rd.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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)
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-12-23
Where
Salem, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
37.293, -80.055 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-salem-va-2007-a5ef7d
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 9 documented reports from Salem, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 71 sightings in 2007.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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