Unknown over Abingdon, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Thermal hit in the clouds after a storm
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2012-08-30 → 2012-09-16
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November 21, 2021 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Abingdon, VA
White lights that looked almost LED, there were in a triangle shape and did not look like they were moving. We watched as we got off the interstate ramp to stop and get a picture and loss sight for less than 1 minute. Once we were able to see the location where they were, they were gone.
June 21, 2018 · 10:30 PM · CHANGING
Abingdon, VA
I arrived home around 10:30 pm and when I pulled in the driveway I noticed a bright light above the tree line in the distance. I first thought it was a satellite or low star and then reasoned it was too low and seemed to move. I went inside and asked by skeptical husband to come and look. He thought it was strange as well. We ruled out helicopter and at that point I went and got my video camera with a rather large zoom. It got stranger from there. My husband thought it might be a drone as it would get farther from the camera and then come back closer. However, when it did come back closer, I got very interesting video that did not look like a drone as it had many more lights; not to mention it was bigger than personal drones and I have not ever seen a military one so I can't say it wasn't. My son came out and wanted to look and he said it looked like it was morphing. Very strange. We got in the car to see if we could get closer to the object and got some additional video. We live in a mountainous region of SW Virginia so your view is often blocked by trees and low areas. We tried to think of another high spot and went out Route 19 towards to North Fork River. We got half way there and realized we were to low and our view was being obstructed by the hills. When then came back into town and went up on a hill at our local Moose Club but once again trees obstructed our view until we came down the hill. We got additional footage and after reviewing it looks like the there are many lights and they are twinkling. We headed home and that is the last we saw of it. The event lasted around 40 minutes. I plan on checking with our local airport to see if they had any calls or if they can identify the object in my videos.
February 12, 2017 · 9:22 PM · UNKNOWN
Abingdon, VA
faint orange tinted light starting at high altitude and seemed to drop like a shooting star but leveled out the flight path across the sky headed ENE toward marion va. one sustained glow,no flashing lights and the ISS was over south america at the time and there were 4 airplanes in the area at the same time
October 29, 2015 · 7:00 AM · CIRCLE
Abingdon, VA
They made no sound, was round and was impressively bright. I haven't a clue what I was seeing or recording. We suspect Jupiter or Venus, but we have not seen the video yet. PD
October 9, 2014 · 8:07 PM · LIGHT
Abingdon, VA
I noticed some clouds in the sky and thought maybe the clouds had obstructed my view of them. After waiting a minute and then rechecking a few minutes later the lights were gone. One light was slightly higher than the other - the one on the right. This is not the first time I've seen something like this, but never lights this bright. They were not moving, just stationary.
September 4, 2014 · 10:05 PM · CIRCLE
Abingdon, VA
We have amended the time shown above, in order to reflect a nighttime sighting. We have no way of contacting the source of the report, who elects to remain anonymous. PD