UFOMYST
CaseSphere2020

St. Thomas (USVI), US Virgin Islands

UFO seen above the US Virgin Islands.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (37 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-12
Where
St. Thomas (USVI), US Virgin Islands
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15-20 minutes
Geo
18.342, -64.931 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-st-thomas-usvi-2020-b4fc81
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

  • St. Thomas (USVI), US Virgin Islands shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 2 reports came from US Virgin Islands in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.