Virginia UFO sighting sparks a family's curiosity, imagination

📍 Location

📝 Description

Original account (Sept. 8, 2013) by Lisa Suhay described two fiery, fireball-like objects streaking across the evening Virginia sky, leaving orange coronas and bright white trails. Suhay and her 9-year-old son Quin observed the phenomenon while driving home near Norfolk, Virginia, pulling into the Norfolk Southern Railway’s Lamberts Point coal yard to get a closer look. The entire event lasted less than eight minutes, during which they photographed and filmed portions of the sighting. Subsequent reporting aligned with a non-extraterrestrial explanation, noting that the objects were probably military aircraft or contrails rather than aliens, with no formal government investigation publicly documented.

🔍 Circumstances

Date: September 8, 2013. Time: around 7:00 p.m. Observers: Lisa Suhay and her 9-year-old son Quin. Activity: while driving home from the grocery store in the Norfolk, Virginia area, Quin points to a bright flare in the sky; observed two fireball-like objects with trails; the observers stop and observe near Norfolk Southern Railway’s Lamberts Point coal yard; photos/videos captured; event lasts under eight minutes.

👤 Physical Description

Two fireball-like objects streaking across the sky; irregular black shapes with orange coronas at the leading edge; bright white trails behind them; described by the witness as resembling a match head burning through the sky; visible movement and occasional changes in direction observed in photos/video.

ℹ️ Additional Details

The sighting was later framed as likely non-extraterrestrial (military aircraft or contrails) rather than an alien craft. The original account included the witness’s photos/videos and described the event in the context of contemporaneous sky phenomena (e.g., fireballs in the news). No formal, publicly documented governmental investigation specific to this sighting appears to have been published.

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