Unspecified over Buckingham, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
was going next door to my mothers house and noticed a flashing light in the clouds in the direction of the south and the light flashed in the sky for at least 2 hours until the clouds covered them up, was seen by several people as we called each other to see if other people saw it was when I saw it around 8 pm and lasted for at least 2 hours never saw what caused it and at times it would speed up and then slow down flashing, what ever it was caused a light of several miles so it had to be huge, have noticed c-130 aircraft flying tree top high as if looking for something flying so low that the pilot and rivets could be seen in aircraft
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131864). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-12-23 → 2017-01-09
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July 16, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Buckingham, VA
Firstly, some context: despite how odd it may sound, I spend every spare moment of my time documenting anomalies (both in the sky and at ground level), so I’m not reporting the following because the incident was unusual for me personally. Instead, I am reporting it because it occurred at 9:15 PM on the evening of July 16, 2020, and is VERY similar to the witness report made only 2 days later from Lakeview, Ohio, which I noticed on your homepage just this evening (October 19, 2020). I use your site as a resource for finding commonalities between my own experiences and what others may be seeing in roughly the same time frame, so I felt that it may be beneficial to someone if I reported this, seeing as how there was already one report made that was so similar – if there was a trend of sightings that week which occurred elsewhere, it may help to determine the path this anomaly was following during that time period (assuming that it is in fact the same object in the report from Ohio). The circumstances of the sighting were simple – I was conducting one of my regular, routine “sky watch” sessions and noticed this coming over, moving roughly south-to-north at approximately 9:15 PM. There was no sound associated with the object, and it moved steadily and slowly, without blinking. Unbeknownst to me, at some point prior to that, I had accidentally bumped the focus ring on the front of my camera (a Sionyx Aurora), and in the video you’ll hear me fussing because I can’t figure out why the camera wouldn’t come into sharp focus . It wasn’t until later that evening I figured out the problem, so unfortunately, the clip is slightly blurry.
April 9, 2016 · 3:00 AM · DISK
Buckingham, VA
The object was glowing in a little ball at first. It had 3 red lights coming from the object. It followed us for about 10 mins before it took of into space where the stars were! The glowing ball was about tree height before taking off. After it assume to be stars range it gave off this bright red light under the bottom of the object. As if it cut its high beams on. Witness provides little contact information. We wonder whether this is a serious report. PD