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Chesapeake, Virginia UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 65 UFO sighting reports in Chesapeake, Virginia to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (15 reports, 23.08% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 10.77% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (15 reports, 23.08% of total).
- 2019 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 10.77% of total).
- 11/14/12 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 3.08% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (25 reports, 38.46% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Chesapeake, Virginia
These Chesapeake, Virginia UFO reports are 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).
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I was standing outside when I noticed it I was outside when I noticed something that looked like an airplane pulling lights behind it. I then watched as it got closer and all I saw was a long line of lights and the lights seemed like it was attached to a football field.
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Several hours witnessing magnitude of changing colors ,size and shapes moving and emitting energy pulses. Began at sunset. Still light out.
Several hours witnessed. Several videos and photos captured. Naked eye was difficult to see object.
Slower shutter speeds on cell phone camera was like a filter allowing more clear viewing of incident. The object changed colors and sizes. It stayed motionless and would move as well.
It was full of vibrant changing colors and suddenly would explode into a huge white orb of light and then would shrink back down into changing lights again.
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Shiny craft sighting I seen a shiny craft in the sky for about 30 seconds in one spot then in about the blink of an eye it moved over too what seemed like about a few hundred yards then it’s almost like it disappeared or it’s almost like it camouflaged into the environment.
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Flaming red orange orb floated about tree-top height through the neighborhood, became oblate and disappeared. On August 22, 2021, in mid afternoon (maybe about 5pm Eastern, Chesapeake VA), I went to take the trash out in my backyard. The weather was nice and clear.
I saw what I initially thought was a plane about to crash, slowly coming towards me from across the street and neighborhood. The large-looking object was spherical shaped, red-orange in color, and had fuzzy edges, like a flaming orb. It floated above the neighborhood roof tops at tree height (about two stories in elevation), moving at about a walking or jogging pace, directly towards me -- moving east to west.
I saw it for less than a minute, perhaps about 30 seconds. As it got closer, the size actually got smaller, which I thought was especially unusual. When it got to be about 60ft away from me, directly over the street out front, the size appeared at that point smaller, perhaps the size of a hot tub (6ft diameter).
I immediately went inside to get my iPad and tell my husband. When I got back outside, I didn't see it turn, but I saw that the object was now over my neighbor's backyard (to our north), and it's direction of travel had become more northerly, as opposed to westerly. It was moving north toward the Indian River.
Its apparent size had also changed. Although I can't estimated the size it appeared, I know it took up about one fourth of the visual size it previously was (previously looked about 6feet over the street). The shape had also changed.
It was more oblate, or flatter: more lens shaped, rather than spherical. I can't remember the color/texture the second time, as I was focused on getting a picture of it with my iPad. As I took the picture, I could no longer see the object.
It was gone. When I looked at that picture later, I remember zooming in and initially thinking that the object was almost bird shaped. Recently (two years later, pulling up the photo to make this report now in August 2023), the picture looks different than I recall, like two bright dots.
The object made no sound during the two times I saw it. My husband did not see it when he went outside with me the second time I saw it -- but he was looking in the wrong direction, it had moved from the east to the north.
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Very bright blinking white object in early morning western sky on 12/26/2020 Early in the morning today (the 26th) when going to my car to get my morning coffee, I was able to see a very bright flashing white light in the western sky. It was extremely bright when blinking, but when it wasn't blinking I could not see anything since it was still dark out. It looked like a very bright pulsing star.
Plus was about 1 second on, 2 seconds off it seemed. also, object didn't move. when I left to get a better view, I saw it one more time on the way to get coffee, then I lost it as it got bright out.
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Floating Light Vanishes Above Greenbrier, Chesapeake, VA Me and my girlfriend were in the car driving home after some stargazing when all of the sudden she started saying something to me along the lines of, “That is not a star DUDE WHAT IS THAT!! Look there’s a light just sitting still in the sky!!!” I was the one driving, so I was trying to pay attention to the road but look at the same time. I did not see what she was talking about at first, and then all of the sudden I saw through the trees what she was talking about - a bright, brilliant white light just sitting still in the sky. It was about 3 miles away, just above the tree-line in the distance.
I would say it was a mile high. As soon as I saw what she was talking about, I changed route to go to a parking lot close by to get a better view on the object. After seeing it, i drive for about 100 feet, when all of the sudden it had just vanished.
It was clearly not a man made aircraft, clearly not a spotlight, and 100% not a celestial body.
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Five lights (looked like stars) moving south one behind the other and disappeared in succession. Was out on back porch and looked up toward the east. The sky was clear and I saw about five lights, they looked exactly like stars, moving in a perfect line southbound.
The lights were perfectly distanced apart (about 20 feet) and appeared extremely high. The lights were moving a bit faster than an airliner would fly at cruising altitude. After about 10 seconds, the first light disappeared and the remaining lights all disappeared in succession at the same spot the first light disappeared.
The area where I live is near Fentress Airfield which is a landing practice field for the USN. I have been around military aircraft most of my life and know these lights were not known aircraft (civilian or military). There was no sound at the time.
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Straight line of lights no flashing. Moved together from west to east. Seemed like they were trailing.
No vehicle seen, no sound.
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Every Friday my husband & I get Chick-fil-A for dinner, but Friday October 4th at 8:12pm something out of the ordinary happened. We do not have ac or heat in his car so we were cruising with all the windows down on Moses Grandy Trail. As we passed the 50 speed limit sign and the road starts to curve the exact spot where we saw the UFO is: https://maps.
app.goo.gl/TgZidfvRYAtaFKxs5 That's when we both saw a bright green light make a V shape and darted over and behind the trees next to the moon on the right.
The UFO was a very clear upside diamond or egg shape. as it zipped down and the UFO made a loop and went round side up flying straight over and behind the trees. There was a lot of traffic and it was right in the middle of the sky close to the roadway.
Overall the encounter lasted for a total of 30 seconds. When it shot behind the trees next to the moon it just hovered and slowly became a tiny dot like it was flying out of the atmosphere. I have included so! me drawn images of the UFO and the flight path it took.
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A green fireball moving across the sky at night. My friend and I were driving down Greenbriar Parkway and she pointed out an odd shape in the sky. I looked up to see a large green fireball falling across the sky.
It lasted for about 30 seconds before disappearing behind the trees.
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I saw a bright-white orb appear (clear sky), travel 5 sec.parallel to the east coastline heading N, then disappear. It was the early morning hours of September 13th, and the last day of a three day meteor shower.
I often enjoy these events and didn’t want to miss the last morning of the event. I got up and went outside with a pillow to lie down on our bench to get a good general view of the sky before the sunrise. My feet were facing south, my left shoulder to the east coast (the sun was beginning to rise a bit).
I caught the first meteor in the upper right quadrant of view…. It was orange in color and zipped the usual speed (1/4-1/2 second in length). A few minutes later I saw the second…in the bottom left quadrant….
same seed. It was bright white in color. I then noticed an airplane…flashing lights in the right, middle area of my general sight.
It was going the usual speed….and quite a bit slower in speed as the meteors….I do not recall if I heard it.
Then (at the same time as the plane was flying from right to left in the middle of my vision), all of a sudden a white orb appeared to the left of mid-field. out of nowhere. It was a circle/ball of light….
opaque in substance as best as I could tell with my eyes. There were no clouds in the sky (except a long thin one that was at the bottom of my field of sight). The orb was quite a bit larger than the meteors….
about the size of a red light when you are stopped about 4 cars back. Best I could tell it was way over the tree line but below the height of the airplane. It traveled south to north for about 5 full seconds and then just disappeared.
It was traveling at least 4 times as fast as the airplane, but at least 4 times slower than the meteors. It didn’t waver; there was no sound; no pulsing; it followed a straight line….and just…was gone.
I have never seen anything like it and I am an avid sky-watcher. Whatever it was…it seemed to follow the coastline.
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I seen a bright orange looking light, that look has if it was coming my way, but then went back and disappeared. First I thought it was a meteor, my dog looked curious and stop in her tracks. Kinda got scared.
((NUFORC Note: The time, as originally indicated by the source of the report, may be flawed. We have changed the time, in order to reflect a nighttime sighting, but we have no means of confirming whether our assumption is correct. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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I live in Chesapeake, Virginia, specifically in the area known as Deep Creek. At approximately 1:41 a.m, I was driving home after a late dinner/early breakfast and saw a good sized yellowish orb of light slowly moving across the sky at cloud level.
I pulled off the road to observe. Initially, it was a solid orb of light. I watched it for a minute or two, then called my 20 year old using my cell phone.
I wanted her to go outside (from home) so she could see what I was seeing. About 15 seconds into our 1 minute and 29 second conversation, the orb starting "blinking" on and off at something close to half-second intervals. As we were ending our conversation, it blinked one more time and then disappeared completely.
About 15 to 20 seconds after the last blink, a second faster moving craft appeared lower in the sky. I couldn't quite make out its shape, but it had rapidly blinking bright red and white lights (almost like an ambulance), with a solid blue light in the center. At the risk of sounding stupid, it appeared to be chasing the first object.
It passed behind a tree and I wasn't able to find it again. I don't know if it also disappeared, or if I simply couldn't see it at this point. All of this took place in a span of about 5 minutes.
I should probably also add that all four of the car's windows were down and I heard no sound coming from either craft. While not relevant to this incident, approximately 3 months ago, I experienced a somewhat similar event. I observed a bright white orb of light moving slowly toward me beneath the clouds.
After a minute or so, a smaller orb seemed to separate itself from the larger and move off to its right side. It was immediately followed by a third orb which moved off to its left side, forming a somewhat sloppy triangle. All three remained for another 15 seconds and then simply disappeared.
There was nothing to interfere with my view. They were there, and then they were gone. These were also soundless.
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Was walking to the happy shopper down the street, heard a weird sound, happened to look up to see 2 unidentified flying objects flying fast in the sky, like super fast, they were circular shaped and the sun had a reflection of beams off of the surface, the sound was like a loud jet engine for 14 seconds.
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Seen a solid bright purple beam of light across the sky and then it just disappeared. It was so big that I could not see a start or end to the beam. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Quantum UFO I was sitting out front smoking and whistling like what I believe UFO energy feels like. I had my phone recording straight, left and right pointed at a tree. Then, at 1 minute and 9 seconds, this white UFO of energy shoots up at the very top of the tree.
It looked like some kind of quantum energy. This is very real. The video is located here on my web server: www.
consciousmystery.net/ufo.mp4.
I bless all eyes so you can see what I see.
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Cigar shaped object hovering in sky I was turning onto my street coming home from lunch, and noticed a white/silver, cigar shaped, object hovering in the sky. There were many commercial aircraft in the air at the time, flying in all directions, leaving chem trails. I proceeded to pull over so I could take a picture with my phone.
As I got out of the car, the object disappeared. This was not a plane. It hovered in the sky and almost appeared to "wobble.
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Saw a light in sky as bright as planet (thought it was a planet), then it moved north(ish) in straight line, figured it was a plane, then it dimmed, got a bit brighter, then dimmed completely. It was almost directly over head. Didn't see anything.
First saw the light NE of big dipper. It wasn't large, seriously just looked like a planet. Not blinking at all.
No sound. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides minimal contact information. PD)).
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Circles of light appearing and darting about the sky, some appearing before others. Flying orbs of light, darting about the sky. They were flying together at times.
Some appeared before others. The seemed to gather together and fly off and disappear. Complete spheres of light.
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Just it was strange so early Traveled very fast very high altitude with two lights (red/green flashing). Sound of engines delayed 30 second after sight. Clear skies tonight, bright stars and only one cloud wispy by at first glance before the aircraft.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Chesapeake, Virginia UFO Sightings 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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Light | 15 reported sightings | 23.08% of all reports |
Circle | 9 reported sightings | 13.85% of all reports |
Unknown | 7 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
Triangle | 6 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
Fireball | 4 reported sightings | 6.15% of all reports |
Sphere | 4 reported sightings | 6.15% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Other | 3 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Chesapeake, Virginia UFO Sightings 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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September | 7 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
October | 7 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
January | 6 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
May | 6 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
April | 6 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
July | 5 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
November | 5 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
December | 5 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
June | 4 reported sightings | 6.15% of all reports |
February | 3 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
August | 3 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Chesapeake, Virginia UFO Sightings 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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Saturday | 15 reported sightings | 23.08% of all reports |
Friday | 13 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 11 reported sightings | 16.92% of all reports |
Wednesday | 9 reported sightings | 13.85% of all reports |
Monday | 7 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
Sunday | 6 reported sightings | 9.23% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 4.62% of all reports |
Chesapeake, Virginia UFO Sightings 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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11/14/12 | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
03/29/13 | 2 reported sightings | 3.08% of all reports |
02/08/14 | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
05/06/03 | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
04/20/16 | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Chesapeake, Virginia UFO Sightings 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 | 25 reported sightings | 38.46% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 13 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 10 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 8 reported sightings | 12.31% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 7 reported sightings | 10.77% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Chesapeake, Virginia
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