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Analysis of Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings in 2014
We analyzed all 7 UFO sighting reports in Richmond, Virginia to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance was "cylinder" (2 reports, 28.57% of total).
- June was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 14.29% of total).
- Friday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 28.57% of total).
- 05/23/14 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 14.29% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (5 reports, 71.43% of total).
UFO Reports in Richmond, Virginia from 2014
These Richmond, Virginia UFO reports from 2014 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).
Full Report Text:
Photographed & Videoed Weird Small Glowing Morphing Cylinder-Orb UFO/Entity Hovering in Tree Behind Neighbor's House During a later-than-normal exercise walk I was prompted to notice a small, glowing, weird rod-shaped object hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground in the flimsy, leafy, outer branches of a large tree behind a house in my tranquil, heavily-wooded suburban neighborhood of Stratford Hills in Richmond, Virginia. I'm 54 years old and I've been walking this route nearly every day for ten years and what I beheld at 11:33 p.m.
on a very quiet Sunday night was abnormal and totally out-of-place! Most of my neighbors probably were in bed. I was fortunate to view the mysterious glowing object that seemed to be hiding up in the tree and I partially attribute my good fortune to the fact that it was a new moon - the darknest night of the month! The silent UFO first was rod-shaped with a glowing blue light on the left end and a pinkish-violet light on the right end. It was hovering horizontally in a place where a human could not be.
It was not a new-fangled bug zapper and there are no cable-TV or electric lines running near the tree and definitely not at that height. No logic for the uncanny faintly-glowing lights in the tree. So I stopped and shot video with my iPhone 4S but with no zoom in vid mode I switched to still-shot so I could peer closer.
I took 30 pics spanning about ten minutes and during this time the small anomalous cylindrical UFO/entity? morphed into an orb which sometimes appeared cobalt-blue and other times violet with a freaky purplish core. Then it morphed back into a rod that was more white colored and appeared to be segmented, reminiscent of a bacterial rod under a microscope. This flying object ain't one of ours - NOT a drone, stealth bomber, planet Venus, or swamp gas.
I did not hear any sounds coming from the object that night but later when I downloaded the video I was surprised to discover that my iPhone had picked up some intriguing clicking noises and when I showed the video to my neighbor S-- she said "It sounds like Morse code." Not meaning that it actually was Morse code but that it definitely sounded like some form of code and/or intelligently-contrived electronic signal. I stood motionless and alone on the shoulder of the street for approximately ten minutes, taking video and photos, before continuing my usual walking route home as I already was walking later than normal and did not want to be out after midnight.
The small, glowing, cylinder-orb UFO/entity still was hovering up in the tree when I left the scene and I have no way of knowing how long it may have lingered behind my neighbor's house that night? So far, I have not shared this with the people who live in the house where the sighting took place because I did not want to run the risk of freaking them out, but coincidentally enough, they started leaving their back-porch floodlights on immediately in the wake of me seeing the UFO in their backyard. I did, however, tell one of their male neighbors and B----- agreed with me that maybe his neighbors who live in the house in question saw the object too and it spooked them? For the record, my neighbor's back-porch and backyard floodlights again were burning brightly when I passed during my walk tonight, 10-29-2014, before submitting this report to NUFORC. I've been watching for the UFO/entity ever since during my exercise walks but no encore yet, and I wasn't even going to submit a report because I didn't know whether this clicking, glowing, morphing rod/orb was an "alien/UFO" or spiritual entity, but then some other odd "occurrences" came to my attention that made me change my college-educated mind: 1.
My sighting in Richmond was at 11:33 p.m. on August 24, 2014 and just four hours later at 3:30 a.
m. on August 25, 2014 a motorist on I-295 N near the Hopewell exit, which is only 22 miles south of Richmond, was followed up the road by a bright UFO orb that was moving a lot faster than manmade highway traffic. Then the orb targeted another car in the southbound lanes and when the sphere made contact with the other vehicle both the orb and car vanished into thin air! Then the driver of the first car saw the orb reappear, and when it started following their car up the highway again they became "terrified," put the pedal to the metal, and made a hasty retreat off the next exit in sight.
I learned of this fascinating occurrence at the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). 2. Then a few hours later around 9 a.
m. on August 25, 2014, a seasoned colonel in the U.S.
Air Force Reserve was killed when his F-15 fighter jet crashed under "mysterious circumstances" in the Blue Ridge Mountains west of Richmond near Deerfield, VA. Coincidentally enough, this was in an area where lots of residents have reported UFOs in the sky and orbs near the ground. They say it took two days to recover the colonel's body and the official Air Force story was that he was from Massachusetts on a "routine training mission.
" Synchronistically enough, I also heard NUFORC's esteemed Director Peter Davenport mention this odd fatal F-15 jet crash in Virginia's mountains during his Oct. 17, 2014 appearance on Coast-to-Coast AM radio with host George Noory. Keep up the good work Peter as the efforts of you and your associates are greatly appreciated by a world starving for accurate, thoughtful information and truth.
I'm not going to speculate or draw conclusions, but it seems like an awful lot of high strangeness for such a small region in ten hours! Last but not least, a couple of weeks after my "close encounter" in Richmond, Virginia USA I was prompted to discover a seemingly-credible YouTube video of a small blue-pinkish-violet rod-shaped UFO that a man and woman in Ontario Canada videoed while sitting around a campground firepit and the anomalous silent hovering object looks uncannily similar to the UFO that I photographed in Richmond, VA when it was in "rod mode." The Ontario sighting was on August 20, 2014, only four days before my sighting in Virginia, and the Canadian couple was prompted to upload their video to YouTube on August 24 which synchronistically was the same day as my sighting! Upon request, I will gladly make my photos and video available to Director Peter Davenport and NUFORC. Ref: http://nuforc.
org/webreports/112/S112877.html http://www.kait8.
com/story/26383364/mass-f-15-fighter-jet-crashes-status-of-pilot-unknown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21D9jaxNwRc.
Full Report Text:
Bright Pulsating RED U.F.O.
and Multi-Spectrum U.F.O.
Whilst spending July 4th with my fiance, we heard fire works going on a few blocks from where I lived. When we went outside to go look at them before she left, we saw the fireworks briefly stop for a minute and A HUGE red pulsating light a "few" thousand feet up near the area of my house, popped up out of nowhere and slowly moved around almost like an observing pattern. Then immediately stops on a dime, slowly moves again, stops on a dime, but when it finally moved again, it vanishes.
I shrug it off an think it's a helicopter or a blimp that had random lights on it, so I head in my car and start driving down a long road near my neighborhood and see the exact SAME object 5-10 miles away (Estimated by draw distance) pop up again and do the same thing but this time it's pulsating a bright red aura. I call the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) and they had no idea what kind of object it was, nor had anything in relation to what was described! as this vehicle and so they gave me the number to this website. If you're reading this I also have additional info on a Multi-Spectrum U.
F.O. seen a couple months ago as well along side with this bright RED U.
F.O.
Full Report Text:
Lolling out of my apartment window I noticed two large white lights that looked like airplane running lights. Upon watching this craft further- two bright red and green lights appeared between the two white lights and pulsated brightly. The lights appeared to be moving in a circle and quivering.
Ran to go out on the porch to get a closer look and the lights grew very bright and the craft disappeared.
Full Report Text:
BIG FIRE BALL ON I-64 MAKING AN AWFUL SOUND. SHOT TOWARDS THE GROUND AND THEN EXPLODED. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect that the report is a hoax.
The source elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. Date is flawed. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Flying reddish "V" shape w/ moving lights over Richmond, Va On 4/2/14, I was sitting in my backyard in Richmond, Va, with my girlfriend and her friend at about 9:00pm. We were talking about something or other and out of the corner of my eye I noticed something strange. At first glance I thought it was a flock of birds in a “V” formation but after I looked closer, I realized they were lights with a reddish-white glow.
There were approximately 10-12 of these lights forming the shape and the V was not a solid shape, with each light moving individually and the “V” shape was changing as well, with one side becoming longer and almost straightening out into a full line as it flew across the sky. After I noticed it, I pointed it out immediately and the other two people witnessed it as well. It was a clear night and the lights stood out greatly in contrast to the sky.
The entire event lasted about 20-25 seconds. The lights came from the north-east sky and travelled of in a western direction. The lights came overhead of us and past us and then just disappeared from sight.
They didn’t appear to move away quickly as they were before but they just simply disappeared. I am a business professional with a college degree and I have never experienced anything like this. I can usually explain most things of this nature but the way this craft moved was the most inhuman thing I have ever seen.
So fluid and quiet, no sound from engines and each light in the “V” formation was moving independently with all the lights finally almost completely straightening out before disappearing. Definitely strange and most certainly not anything of this world.
Full Report Text:
I'm a trucker but when I was going north on interstate 95. Somewhere around Richmond Virginia, I saw 3 aluminum looking balls flash in different locations near each other. Just after a white flying saucer with a brown line in the middle appeared then disappeared.
Then after the aluminum balls appeared then disappeared a dark tan camouflage jet was hovering. Maybe a harrier jump jet because it didn't look like an air force jet. It was last week.
Around 3/25/14 during the day. Maybe they can bend light to disappear since the aluminum balls and white saucer then the tan camouflage jet appeared in the same area. ((NUFORC Note: Time and date above are approximate.
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Lights was moving in same directions going in then out. The objects was moving in same directions and the big one just stopped over my and my brother and my friend head. ((NUFORC Note: Source of report does not indicate a date of the alleged sighting, and indicates a time in the morning.
We have assigned above an arbitrary time and date, and will amend those data, once we've heard back from the witness. PD)).
Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings From 2014 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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Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings From 2014 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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Friday | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings From 2014 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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05/23/14 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
04/02/14 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
03/25/14 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
06/03/14 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
02/01/14 | 1 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 5 reported sightings | 71.43% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Other Years with Reported UFO sightings in Richmond, Virginia
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Richmond, Virginia.
All Virginia Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2014
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Virginia in 2014. You can also view the state-level list of UFO sightings in Virginia in 2014.