Charlottesville, VA, USA
Orange/Red lights in the sky that completely reversed direction in flight.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-24
- Where
- Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.029, -78.477 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-charlottesville-va-2016-83ae54
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
- Charlottesville, VA has 36 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 120 reports from Virginia.
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.