CaseUnknown2015

Roanoke, VA, USA

I was sitting outside looking at the sky and noticed a fast moving object.Thought at first it was a plane then noticed that it had circ

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-07-11
Where
Roanoke, VA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
37.271, -79.941 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-roanoke-va-2015-a54e7e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Roanoke, VA shows up 59 times across the archive.
  • 151 reports came from Virginia in 2015.

Report

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