Virginia Sightings

Single panel intelligence dossier image for the 1947 Norfolk Virginia flying disc case showing a 13-year-old boy on a front porch raising an old camera toward a large dark gray nearly black oval object with a burned-crisp texture and glittering edges trailing dust just below the cloud base, with two smaller oval objects following behind, framed by a porch rail and summer trees for scale, rendered as a grainy July 1947 silver gelatin newspaper press photograph in an indigo-charcoal palette with HUD overlays marking the three objects, the estimated 5000-foot altitude and 600 mph southwest-to-northeast track, the DD daylight disc classification, and the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch source

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Virginia Sightings

1947: Flying Disc Photographed By Norfolk Youth

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 5, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1947: Flying Disc Photographed By Norfolk Youth On the afternoon of July 9, 1947 — with the...

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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the May 1949 Virginia and Tennessee flying-disc newspaper report, showing a wide dusk landscape over the Blue Ridge ridgelines with small darkened towns below as a single long fiery cigar-shaped object with a bright red glowing nose crosses the deep-blue evening sky from southwest to east, trailing a wriggling tail of fire and smoke, with a few distant unidentifiable people looking up from a roadside; rendered in coarse low-saturation late-1940s silver-gelatin press texture, with a clipped newspaper fragment headlined "These Flying Discs Are At It Again" and a high-contrast map showing a straight dashed southwest-to-northeast line through Kingsport, Bristol, Pulaski, Christiansburg, and Roanoke, and restrained red tactical HUD overlays marking the case as Classification NL nocturnal lights, multiple Virginia and Tennessee witnesses, source the Lynchburg Advance 1949, status Explained as a probable fireball.

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Virginia Sightings

1949: These Flying Discs Are At It Again, Virginians Report – Newspaper

Published: August 8, 2013 | Updated: June 7, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1949: “These Flying Discs Are At It Again” — Virginia & Tennessee On the evening of May...

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Virginia Sightings

1957: Fort Belvoir, Virginia Photo

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: October 2, 2025

THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTING REPORT Date: September, 1957 Sighting Time: Day/Night: Day Location: Fort Belvoir, Virginia Urban or Rural: Rural Hynek Classification: DD (Daylight...

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Virginia Sightings

1964: Immense cone-shaped object crosses low over highway

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: October 2, 2025

THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTING REPORT Date: December 21, 1964 BBU Sighting Time: 5:00 p.m. Day/Night: Night Location: Near Staunton,...

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Virginia Sightings

1965: Landing & Aliens at Brand’s Flats, Virginia

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: October 2, 2025

THINK ABOUTIT ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT Date: January 19, 1965 Sighting Time: 5:40 PM Day/Night: Night Location: Brand’s Flats, Virginia Urban or Rural: Rural No....

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Virginia Sightings

1966: Huge disk like object with dome top, gray metallic, with rainbow lights

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: October 2, 2025

THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTINGS REPORT Date: 1966 Sighting Time: Day/Night: Night Location: Lunenburg County, Appomattox, Virginia Urban or Rural: -Rural Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal...

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Virginia Sightings

1947: Flying Disc Photographed By Norfolk Youth

1949: These Flying Discs Are At It Again, Virginians Report – Newspaper

1952: The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting

1957: Fort Belvoir, Virginia Photo

1964: Immense cone-shaped object crosses low over highway

1965: Landing & Aliens at Brand’s Flats, Virginia

1966: Huge disk like object with dome top, gray metallic, with rainbow lights

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