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Analysis of Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings in 2019
We analyzed all 8 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 "triangle" (3 reports, 37.50% of total).
- September was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 37.50% of total).
- Sunday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 37.50% of total).
- 09/20/19 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 37.50% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (3 reports, 37.50% of total).
UFO Reports in Richmond, Virginia from 2019
These Richmond, Virginia UFO reports from 2019 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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Medium light orb fell from the sky into the trees. I was driving from my boyfriends house on Bailey Bridge Rd in N Chesterfield, VA, heading towards Hull Street. I was passing Battlecreek Drive and saw a orb of light the size of a stop light when you are sitting at the Intersection.
It was very quick, and seemed to curve slightly, it dropped from right above the tree line into the tall trees that are to the left of the turn from Bailey Bridge Rd onto Battlecreek Drive. I also think it might have dimmed a little bit, but that also could have been the trees.
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3 flying saucers I was in my bedroom in my apartment and decided to peek out the bay window we have, not even 5 seconds later I see a very round "cloud" but I notice this is no cloud because it was perfectly saucer shaped. It flew north over a bank of america building then disappeared shortly after, after the first one disappeared a second saucer, that was a darker grey then the first one, took the same path as the first one and disappeared. Then came a third one.
The third one was the same color as the second one, but instead of just disappearing, it morphed into a spiral, tornado like shape before also disappearing.
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Fast moving white, bright light moved across the sky - moving much faster than a plane. On a clear night, we were sitting outside having a beer at Hardywood West Creek, when my boyfriend, dad, brother, and I noticed other patrons looking up at the sky and pointing at it. When we got up from our table, we saw that they were looking a very white, bright light moving across the sky.
This thing was moving much faster than a plane and was not blinking. In about 3 - 5 minutes it had crossed over us and then was out of our line of sight. There were about 10 - 15 others who saw this, and they too were stumped about what they had just seen.
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Triangle Shaped UFO Sighted in Richmond. Walked outside to let my dog pee- huge triangle shaped object with like 30 lights all blinking flying low. Craziest thing I've seen in my life- was metallic gray but had different colored blinking lights.
A lot of them were white but some were green and yellow. Heading south- it looked like it went right over where the Richmond race way would be. The race track is so loud- even though I am a few miles from it I can still hear the car engines and it is hard to tell if the object was making a sound.
The day was turning to night but the sky was still very blue as the sun had not quite set yet.
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I can only choose this date because I have noticed a similar posting for this day regarding this sighting. This was a warm afternoon and I was sitting on my porch talking to my roommate. I live in Oregon Hill and while she was talking, I became very still and fixated on a formation of lights in the distance, south of my house beyond the river.
There were three lights in a triangle, I mostly remember one being red and another green because it was striking against the blue sky. It was before the sun set that night. I had to interrupt the conversation because I could not focus on what we were talking about due to my interest in this form.
I pointed it out to her, and we mutually concluded that it was a ufo. Moments after we still somehow returned to our conversation. I watched it a little longer but did not recall when it had disappeared.
There is an airport in that direction, but we rarely see a plane nearing the location I noticed. I was very high in the sky and a great distance from where we sat, but there was a clear triangular formation of the lights. Seeing that someone had posted something like what I experienced really validated what we had seen.
I have never seen a green light involved on any other aircraft before this day.
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a triangular object, one light on each point, size of football field escorted by VERY LOUD fast moving chopper going east. a triangular object, one light on each point, light orange/white hue light color, about the length of a city block in size, almost translucent undercarriage tilting or banking slightly as it moved forward being followed or escorted by a black, fast moving, VERY LOUD, helicopter. going exactly East in direction, towards the ocean/quantico/washington DC.
for the helicopter being so immensely loud, the sound came out of nowhere about 3-5 seconds before it came from behind a low two story brick building in church hill. the two were flying very low but moved at an incredible speed which covered 12 miles in 5-8 seconds. the ufo disappeared before the helicopter did.
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Saw an odd moving light in the night sky, blinking in an odd fashion before it disappeared. I was stepping out to get something out of my vehicle when I noticed first what seemed like a flash of light similar to a beam from a lighthouse from the corner of my eye. I looked up into that direction, which was northward, and then I didn't see anything.
Moments later, I saw a light light up in the sky moving northward. After the light was on for maybe 3 seconds, it went out. I assumed it was an airplane at first oh, but I didn't see the static red light.
I know the fixed red light is on all airplanes, I worked in Navy aviation so that's normally the first thing that I would see on a plane that is flying at night. After another three or four seconds having not seen the light come back on, it did again but it only remained lit for maybe another half of a second. After the light disappeared the second time, I did not see it again.
I have not ever seen an aircraft where the lights acted that way, so I felt very suspicious about it. There were no clouds in the! area where I was looking at, I was able to see all of the other stars around the light that I saw. And the light appeared to be larger than the Stars, and it was a very dull yellow almost white light.
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8-10 lights flying in circle formation during lunar eclipse. I was outside viewing the lunar eclipse around midnight. To the south of the moon I saw movement and there were approximately 8-10 faint white lights in a circle.
There were some clouds so maybe they were behind them. They were really high in the sky and I thought from their angular shape they were birds at first. They flew in formation and each light peeled away from the ring and made a spiral in the sky, like drawing a number 9, then disappeared.
It all happened within a minute or so. I kept looking to see if I could see them again, but they were gone.
Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Triangle | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings From 2019 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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09/20/19 | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
10/06/19 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
07/28/19 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
12/08/19 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
06/29/19 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Richmond, Virginia UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 37.50% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 2 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
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