UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Virginia Beach, VA, USA

White, spherical object moving in a NW trajectory, silent, moving extremely fast.

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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-03-10
Where
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
8-10sec.
Geo
36.853, -75.978 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-virginia-beach-va-1997-1b160e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 176 reports logged in Virginia Beach, VA.
  • This case is one of 23 Virginia reports filed in 1997.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 1990s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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