CaseSphere1984
Suffolk, VA, USA
Large, orangey colored sphere rose slowly from behind trees in the distance and traveled silently across the sky.
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1984-07-25
- Where
- Suffolk, VA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 36.728, -76.585 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-suffolk-va-1984-efe98a
In context
- Suffolk, VA shows up 20 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Virginia in 1984.
- In the 1980s, 8.1% 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.