CaseSphere2019
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
White orb in the sky (anonymous).
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-02-18
- Where
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- Unknown
- Geo
- 36.853, -75.978 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-virginia-beach-va-2019-5a8cfa
Wave
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 176 reports logged in Virginia Beach, VA.
- This case is one of 194 Virginia reports filed in 2019.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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