CaseUnknown1986
Portsmouth, VA, USA
A trail of smoke
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (16 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-09-19
- Where
- Portsmouth, VA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 36.835, -76.298 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-portsmouth-va-1986-0ad43a
In context
- One of 38 documented reports from Portsmouth, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 5 sightings in 1986.
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.