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Virginia Beach, Virginia UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 191 UFO sighting reports in Virginia Beach, Virginia to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "fireball" (29 reports, 15.18% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (23 reports, 12.04% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (33 reports, 17.28% of total).
- 2013 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (18 reports, 9.42% of total).
- 11/19/95 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 1.05% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (89 reports, 46.60% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Virginia Beach, Virginia
These Virginia Beach, 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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Silver Cylinder moving slowing in the sky. There I was looking up out of my sunroof waiting to go into the gym, just like every other day. Out of nowhere there was this cylinder object moving slowly through the sky.
At first I thought drown but no, we live in a no fly zone area due to the military jets that are constantly flying. This was no plane. It had no light like one.
The sun itself reflected off it. I have the video. iPhone 15 pro max.
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Cluster of about 8 red lights in the Northwest sky over Chesapeake Bay Saw a cluster of about 8 red lights in the sky Northwest over the Chesapeake Bay. By the time l started filming, they formed a straight line and went behind the trees. At that point, the lights were blinking.
Still red, but there were a few “white orbs” seen around them as well and if you pause the video, theres some that quickly come in and out of the frames.
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We were fishing I was repositioning the boat looked up saw a craft(tic tack) moving through the clouds , I saw no wings A tic tack object moving slowly in and out of clouds, it stopped at edge of clouds than moved quickly out from behind them and stopped . I said to my son what is that and as I stared at it it just disappeared.
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We noticed a bright circular object moving slowly in the sky. It passed my a plane and color changed to a bright orange. Objected passed by a plane during sighting.
It had not flashing lights like the 4 other plane flying at the time. No sound was heard during sighting. It seems to be circular, emulating lights.
No signs of propulsion or streaks emanating from object.
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Large pulsing circle of energy framed by black square. Mistaken for planet until it changed shape and flashed. 3 smaller black crafts.
Just before 9 pm a large bright light appeared in the sky above the beach. We first thought it was a planet until it started flashing and changing shape. I began taking photos and video with an iPhone 13.
On the monitor, I could see an intense spinning circle of energy framed by a pitch black square. It hovered over the beach for over 20 minutes. Reviewing the video clips, two smaller dark triangular can be seen about the large object in the 11 o’clock position.
Another object appears below it in the 5 o’clock position. The object then drifted back towards the North Virginia Beach neighborhood until it could no longer be seen. On the video clip, you can see it flashing, changing colors, seemingly growing larger and smaller.
It’s quite active.
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Extremely large chevron with rounded nose, at least 3 bright lights underside flying 7 miles from Oceana NAS Extremely large light gray/white? chevron with rounded nose flying 7 miles from Oceana NAS (Appeared to be making a loop around NAS). This UFO would be the size of 3 jets flying in group formation and had 3 bright lights located on its underside with one under the nose and another under each wing? UFO had a low humming engine noise-not really loud like the jets we see all the time.
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Looked like a rocket launch coming up from behind a house, traveled above and past us out of sight. We often see rocket launches from NASA at Wallops Island, VA about 100 miles south of us. This looked like a rocket launch as it rose above houses on our street, then appears to level off and travel above us, however it came up from the North, not the south where the NASA station is.
There was quite a bit of cloud cover so it was surprising that we could see it so clearly - it seemed to be very high up, but must have been below the cloud line because the flames were not hazy, as if viewed behind clouds. It appeared to be some kind of craft, the rear looked like flames or a fireball was coming out. For something so bright I expected it to be loud, but it sounded like a very distant plane, more of a rumbling than whining sound.
after 3 min the fireball disappeared as if it flew above the clouds.
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Vanishing Flying Object I was able to photograph and video tape an object I thought might be a comment; however, instead aid breaking up like a meteorite does or satellite debris does and simply vanishes. I have seen meteorites enter the atmosphere during the Pleiades and satellite debris come in and break up over the area, and I kinda has a firework like appearance, as it breaks up the simply vanishes.
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Object appears overnight with no identifying characteristics of known origins. One morning this past July I stepped outside sat down and saw something that appeared to be a raindrop yet when I took a closer look there was colors inside of this drop. These colors of gold and red could be seen that formed what looks like an iris and pupil of an eye.
I I let others know to not touch this object because it's not known what it is and could potentially be poisonous. Time passed after deciding and the drop stayed in place has not moved yet does seem to have a shiny coat that glimmers in the light like as if it were polished. Still do not want something that I can't identify and that I am hesitant to remove myself to be in way of our everyday lives.
I will add that this is the second time that I have written this report yet this time I will be able to send it. The first time that I wrote this report as I was pressing send the phone shut down. The second time which was today that I began to visit the website my phone shut down.
Now these occurrences to me are oddly similar in relativity. I'm sure that might make some sense about something that is not necessarily understood. That is my report and I send this with the hope that I can get an answer and at least have this safely removed.
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UFO at first colonial drive Virginia Beach At 7:46 am I was waiting for my delivery at the pick up parking lot , every 2 or 3 days I take a video to put in my Instagram account @turnlightart I love the sky so my shots are to bring the beauty of the sky. After that I continued working I got home and when I was ready to post my rell I saw something really strange so you will see it in the video. A ufo by my knowledge was on the left clouds and suddenly you see some king of electrical blink and the object start flying really fast to the right a second or 3 after another blink light is in front maybe the same object or another one.
I live in Virginia Beach and I’m use to military aircraft and their noise, in this particular moment no sound is heard. Comes to my attention that the military air museum and academy is within a few minutes from there. If this is a ufo they are spying or watching unless this Is a experiment I just want to report it just in case.
Have a wonderful day.hope this info is helpful.
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Cloudlike spherical object with no real form but hard edges appeared and held a position at altitude despite winds aloft then vanished Something that looked akin to a giant clear ballon but more oblong/spherical shaped showed up in the sky on a relatively clear day. It had a cloudy appearance, almost, it's hard to describe, but it wasn't a cloud and it's shape was "active" though not really changing. It made no sense.
It was planted at a point in the sky and clouds were passing it, then it simply vanished. I didn't think it was a UAP until I saw pictures that navy pilots took off the coast (within a few miles of this exact spot) and one of them looked exactly like this. The "sphere" object in this link is what I saw, except it was a little more oblong.
https://kfor.com/news/mystery-objects-remain-unidentified/ .
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A bright flash of white light from straight ahead that passed directly under our airplane within 3-5 seconds of appearing In or around February 24th, 2021 at approximately 1330 we were flying a training mission in a U.S. Navy C-2 greyhound flying at approx 10,000’ MSL at N37.
00W076.00 on a rough heading of 360 magnetic right at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay at approx 250 KIAS when a bright white flying object appeared in front of the airplane almost co-altitude. It was white as if it was radiating light and headed right toward our airplane at speeds unimaginable.
Within 3-5 seconds it had passed just under our plane and I thought we would collide with the object but the pinpoint precision allowed it to fly head-on just below the belly of our plane. I doubt this was a UAV as the size and speed was not conducive to any I possess knowledge of. The encounter gave me the chills and I had a weird feeling in my stomach afterwards as we continued our flight.
Both the other pilot and I recalled the encounter and pondered reporting it to the UAP reporting program which had recently been discussed after the F-18s in our area had sighted UAP’s recently but we did not decide to report the encounter at that time.
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Glowing sphere, silently climbs to great height at a constant speed and in a straight line On Nov 17,2020 at 7:01PM EST. I took my dog outside. It was a clear night, windy at 21.
9mph. Looking to the South I saw 2 stars and at first, what I thought to be a plane but through further observation, I knew it wasn't a plane. I am a veteran, worked in the airline industry and have hundreds of hours worth of flight time, I have also lived in a military town for most of my life next to an airbase and civilian airport, this was NOT an airplane,a helicopter,a flare, a later or a drone.
I watched as the circular glowing object, making no noise ascend straight up at a constant speed. I watched the object for a few minutes as it continued to climb and then it just blacked out or disappeared at a great height.
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I was at my local basketball courts with some friends and we saw lights moving in the sky in ways that didn’t seem normal. There was another group of 4 there at the time who also saw what we witnessed. There were 2-4 UFOs that we saw but it was hard to tell how many there really were because a few times we saw light zap from one light to another almost like a shooting star over a short distance.
The lights were bright and white and were not flashing.
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2 Navy Jets being followed by what??? While driving home in the afternoon, I watched two Navy Jets making their approach to Oceana that appeared to be followed be a pencil shaped object. Jets don’t tow pencil shaped objects. I lost sight of all three over a tree line as they made a turn towards air base.
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They were fast red orbs that gravitated to a pulsating light of of the water of the ocean.
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Orange glow in the sky Drove down Ferrell Parkway to Princess Anne road and could see a bright orange glow off in the distance. As I drove near Salem Road and turned into a neighborhood, I could still see the orange object in the sky. It was bright, yet the crescent shaped moon was to my back as I faced to see the object.
My compass on my phone had the object as exactly East, perhaps closer to the ocean. The object disappeared and faded away as if it switched off a light, before I could take a picture.
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((NUFORC Note: Source of report provides no detailed information about the sighting. PD)).
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strange extraterrestrial like object turns red flames off when realizing that they’re exposed and then disappears I was just in the right place at the right time and as i look up into the night sky i notice something moving across it kind of looking like a shooting star, i got my friends attention to look at what I'm looking at to make sure I'm not tripping, he told me that its not a shooting star, then it looks almost like an airplane but I can still only see the red light or flames I'm not really sure, i started to wonder if it was a plane that caught on fire and then suddenly the object turns those red flaring lights off!! It was almost like that they noticed us watching it and then tried to hide itself, we couldn’t believe we were witnessing this and then it literally just glided into a cloud and it was gone!! But once the lights shut off of this said object we could still notice the shape of it and it was relatively close but only when it was directly above from where we were standing at, I first noticed this moving from the east direction probably a mile away from! our coordinators, i have never witnessed anything like this ever before and it has my full attention I'm very intrigued.
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Pink brown floating jellyfish over Virginia beach Me and my roommate were outside enjoying the night when I spotted what I thought was a bag floating in the wind. As it got closer both me and my roommate could only describe it as a pink/brown jelly fish floating in the air as if it was water . Its slowed as we watched it as it changed direction and moved faster and it floated away.
Me and my roommate both ran out to the street but when we got out to the street it a floated a huge distance within seconds.
Virginia Beach, 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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Fireball | 29 reported sightings | 15.18% of all reports |
Light | 26 reported sightings | 13.61% of all reports |
Circle | 24 reported sightings | 12.57% of all reports |
Triangle | 15 reported sightings | 7.85% of all reports |
Disk | 15 reported sightings | 7.85% of all reports |
Sphere | 14 reported sightings | 7.33% of all reports |
Unknown | 13 reported sightings | 6.81% of all reports |
Other | 8 reported sightings | 4.19% of all reports |
Cigar | 6 reported sightings | 3.14% of all reports |
Chevron | 6 reported sightings | 3.14% of all reports |
Rectangle | 6 reported sightings | 3.14% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 2.62% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 1.57% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 1.57% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 1.57% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 1.05% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 1.05% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 1.05% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 1.05% of all reports |
Delta | 1 reported sightings | 0.52% of all reports |
Virginia Beach, 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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July | 23 reported sightings | 12.04% of all reports |
November | 21 reported sightings | 10.99% of all reports |
September | 20 reported sightings | 10.47% of all reports |
June | 19 reported sightings | 9.95% of all reports |
March | 18 reported sightings | 9.42% of all reports |
October | 17 reported sightings | 8.90% of all reports |
February | 16 reported sightings | 8.38% of all reports |
August | 15 reported sightings | 7.85% of all reports |
April | 15 reported sightings | 7.85% of all reports |
December | 9 reported sightings | 4.71% of all reports |
May | 8 reported sightings | 4.19% of all reports |
January | 8 reported sightings | 4.19% of all reports |
Virginia Beach, 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 | 33 reported sightings | 17.28% of all reports |
Wednesday | 31 reported sightings | 16.23% of all reports |
Sunday | 29 reported sightings | 15.18% of all reports |
Monday | 29 reported sightings | 15.18% of all reports |
Thursday | 28 reported sightings | 14.66% of all reports |
Friday | 21 reported sightings | 10.99% of all reports |
Tuesday | 18 reported sightings | 9.42% of all reports |
Virginia Beach, 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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11/19/95 | 2 reported sightings | 1.05% of all reports |
09/03/19 | 2 reported sightings | 1.05% of all reports |
03/29/09 | 2 reported sightings | 1.05% of all reports |
07/31/14 | 2 reported sightings | 1.05% of all reports |
06/15/03 | 2 reported sightings | 1.05% of all reports |
Virginia Beach, 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 | 89 reported sightings | 46.60% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 31 reported sightings | 16.23% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 24 reported sightings | 12.57% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 17 reported sightings | 8.90% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 15 reported sightings | 7.85% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 13 reported sightings | 6.81% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Virginia Beach, Virginia
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