CaseUnknown1972
Roanoke, VA, USA
Witnesses in Roanoke, Virginia reported several star-like lights moving together in formation across the sky during a five-minute sighting in June 1972.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (152 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-06-30
- Where
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.271, -79.941 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-roanoke-va-1972-25278c
In context
- Roanoke, VA has 59 sightings on file here.
- 1972 brought 2 reports from Virginia.
Report
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