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Virginia UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 8 UFO sighting reports in Virginia from 1993 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (3 reports, 37.50% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 37.50% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 25.00% of total).
- 08/01/93 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 12.50% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (3 reports, 37.50% of total).
Virginia UFO Sighting Reports in 1993
This is a sampling of 20 Virginia UFO reports from 1993, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
Full Report Text:
hard metal octagon shaped object floating away above tree tops in marion, va in summer of 1993 The craft was almost as big as a small house. It looked like it was made of a hard metal. It was not completely round but not square either.
It was more like an octagon shape. It had colorful lights on the belly of it. There was about four of us girls standing outside smoking cigarettes and my sister just happened to look up and see it.
It was going really slow and it made no sound. We watched it until it went out of sight and kept up with it as far as we could. I yelled to some other girls to come see it and one girl came over and got just a glimpse of it before it went out of sight into the horizon.
It stayed just above the trees and just before it appeared all the lights in the town went out. All of us girls were raised pretty much normal. We all were alittle bit mischievous.
We experimented with marijuana sometimes and alcohol but that’s it. We were at the Job Corp at the time. My background includes being manic depressive and at the time w! as on medication for it.
I was always wanting to see a ufo ever since my cousin saw an alien when she was about 13 at her home in strange creek, WV. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
It was a silver round disk with a dome centered ontop alot like the ones in the 1950s space movies I was driving home from work with my young son around 5:00pm. It was a clear day except for a few fluffy white clouds. On a heavy traveled road I pulled off because I had noticed a silver disk sticking only a little way out of the clouds above me.
I got out of the car and stared at the round silver disk. there were no lights on the disk. The thing that surprised me was how much it looked like the saucers from those old 1950 space movies.
There was a dome that was centered atop the disk that had a shield the closed after I was watching for several minutes The most scariest was the fact it was very close to me I could see it prefectly clear.Then it pulled into the cloudes and I drove home ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Triangle craft, silent.3 lights. Brother and I were driving down rte.
522, came around a corner and seen a triangle craft with large, round blueish white lights on each corner. We stopped car, got out and watched it. We were almost directly underneath it.
It was about 20ft above the trees. It moved slowly over the road, over the trees/woods to the right of us. The lights lit up the ground under the trees clearly.
It was completely silent. We observed it for approximately 3. Or 4 minutes.
Then the lights went out and that was it. We could not see it anymore. Craft was approximately 100ft long on each side.
Was so close to us we could of thrown a rock at it. The next day on radio it said over 100 UFO reports were reported in Powhatan, Cumberland and Buckingham counties for the same time frame we witnessed the UFO. Life changing experience.
Full Report Text:
Wife & I observed light shining intrees on top of mtn., near same area where 3 people from had died about 10 years prior in airplane crase. The 1st of 3 large lights rose above mtn.
no sound, it took about 5 min to disappear, straight up. Light could be seen shining threw the trees on the top of the mountain. I thought it was th moon getting ready to come up.
Slowely a big light could be seen in the trees. I told wife I thought a helicopter was up there looking at the area of the airplane crash. However, the light at about a mile away looked about half the size of the moon and was about as bright as the moon on a clear night.
There was no sound, I became more curious as the second light came up. then the third. They appeared to be a couple hundred yards apart.
they started picking up speed, going almost straight up. These were big lights, maybe as big a a hundred feet across. they kept going faster and fast, getting smaller un till they looked like blinking stars and they were gone.
--------I did not ever think I would report this, but since I got a computer I have found a lot of things in it. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Disapeering flying object My friend and I live in Richmond, Va. and we use to go up to Colonial Beach, which is on the Potomach River and go fishing. The river is a couple of miles wide and on the other side of the river is Maryland.
This location is about 10 miles from a militray bas, Fort A.P. Hill.
We were fishing behind this seafood restaurant which has a couple of peirs to fish from. On the other peir there was a family of 3. Well, while we were fishing I noticed up in the sky probably 1000 ft.
up was a white object flying slowy over the river. It was making no sound. The crazy thing about it was, as it was flying over the river it would just fade out and vanish when it was close to the other side of the river.
And amazingly after this would occur, it would re-appear back where it started from. This went on for about 20 minutes. I even ran over to the other pier to show the people there what it was doing.
We all saw it in broad daylight on a clear day. The other strange thing was, after it had stopped flying over, a few minutes later a fighter jet flew up through the area that this UFO craft had just been flying in. Has anyone else seen anything like this.
Please email me if you have.
Full Report Text:
Approacing with the ultimate in techonoligal stealth , liken unto a Chamelon! The date is approximate and my best guess. Didn't really ever want to tell anyone. After leaving my friends house and proceeding down the driveway, I heard the crows in the tops of the tall pines raising heck.
I turned to look because the noise was like that of/or if 1 of their own was wounded. While watching them in the tops of the trees fling around squalking wildly, with a clear blue sky in the farthest background, I noticed a round blue circular object coming into view underneath the high cirrus clouds. Immediately I was overwhelmed as it came closer and to my dismay, began to project the clouds over top of the craft on the bottom.
It was easy to follow while moving down the peninsula with the constant movement of the clouds in the path of the craft being seemingly plucked from the sky and projected on the underside of the craft. The craft only stopped two times while traveling down the peninsula, once over apparently Ft.Eustis, the second being apparently over ths James River bridge area, before uplifting at an incredible pace and dissapearing above the high cirrus clouds.
The two times the craft stopped it was extremely hard to see. 1 point that I called frantically for my friend or his 2star Admiral father to come see what i was looking at, i looked away for a second while it was stationary, only to have a hard time seeing it again when i looked back. While still stationary, the craft seemed to have a sheen of a very thin line of colors of the surroundings given at it's outermost edges.
But when it started to move again, it resumed picking up what was above the craft and projecting it below on it's hull. There was no noise from it the whole time, however the crows stopped squalkin when the craft was stopped almost overhead. Weird hugh? The approximate time for this whole ordeal was about 5 mins.
The approximate path viewed was form the Colonial Williamsburg - Camp Peary area down to the first stop over the Warwickriver - Ft.Eustis area then down to the James River bridge - Newport News shipyard area. When leaving upwards and outwards the craft seemed to go towards Chesapeake - Soffolk direction.
I have wondered over the years if they had the techonology to project what was above to below, what a perfect camoflauge if the could project below to the above so as not to be spotted if overflown. We'll to sum it up whatever or whoever they were they made me wonder how small we really are. Still, with my faith in Christianity, I guess one day, God will let me know! ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
A Light appeared suddenly in front of the windshield so big and bright, and then we were driving into a different direction.where did the light go, why dont' I remember turning the car around? During a weekend camping trip on the Skyline Drive atop of the Applachains Mts. I suggested that we take the two older boys along with thier mom to go spot deer with a halogen light that pluged into the lighter of the car.
we drove past the open meadow ont he mountain top and after spotting the deer, we decided to turn around at the cliffside past the meadow. As I attemped a K-turn pointing the car out to the night sky and the dropoff of the mountain, the car filled up with a bright light, bigger than the windshield. I covered my eyes as one of the boys asked "what's that", and I replied "it's a campers lantern", then my next memory is driving back to camp, around 1/8th of a mile from where we turned.
but no one remembers the turn finishing, including me who was driving, and what happened to the light?. We returned to find ((deleted)) jumping up from the fire to tell us aobut this huge white light in the sky, we told him we saw it in front of us. Nothing was ever mentioned again.
From that time my life took a differnt road and i became a hypnotherapist. The encounter was still bothering me, I couldn't believe that I would give a stupid answer "a campers lantern". My logical mind was not accepting this.
So, till I took one of the boys camping with me to the same area in 1998. i took ((deleted)), who was 9 at the time of the encounter. I regressed ((deleted)) back to the time of the sighting and this is what he said "It's a bright light, bluish in the center, it's an energy, it's pushing us back up the mountain, we're not supposed to remember" he repeated this over a few times.
((deleted)) on the other hand does not remember telling us about the light. Me, ((dleted)), ((deleted)) and ((deleted)) were in the car, and either ((deleted)) or((deleted)) are willing to talk aobut it. something is making them dismiss it, they admit they saw something, but they dont' care what it was.
I find this very odd.
Full Report Text:
Bright flash and blue ring of fire emitting vapor trail I was a military police officer at Fort Story Virginia. At the time of this sighting, myself and my partner were putting delineators in the road for a bike race or marathon the next day, I can't remember which. Anyway, I was driving the truck, and he was in the back dropping the delineators on the road.
We were moving very slowly.Suddenly there was a bright blue flash, like the world's biggest flash bulb. My partner yelled "Look!".
At the same time I stopped the truck and got out. My partner was standing in the bed of the truck pointing at an object that I can only describe as a ring of blue fire, hollow in the middle, moving up very rapidly. It had a small vapor trail following it.
Then it disappeared.
Virginia UFO Sightings From 1993 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Circle | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
Light | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Virginia UFO Sightings From 1993 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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June | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Virginia UFO Sightings From 1993 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Sunday | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Virginia UFO Sightings From 1993 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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08/01/93 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
04/15/93 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
06/15/93 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
08/08/93 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
07/22/93 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Virginia UFO Sightings From 1993 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
All Virginia Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1993
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Virginia, in 1993
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Newport News | 1 UFO Reports | Newport News UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Marion | 1 UFO Reports | Marion UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Powhatan | 1 UFO Reports | Powhatan UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Richlands | 1 UFO Reports | Richlands UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Colonial Beach | 1 UFO Reports | Colonial Beach UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Sky Line Drive | 1 UFO Reports | Sky Line Drive UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Warrenton | 1 UFO Reports | Warrenton UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Virginia Beach | 1 UFO Reports | Virginia Beach UFO Sightings in 1993 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Virginia
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Virginia.