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Portsmouth, VA
Virginia · Portsmouth city · Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk Metro
Portsmouth is a mid-size city in Virginia with a population of 97,299. Residents earn $58,972 per year, which is 22% below the national average.
2.9
/5.0
C+
Fair
97,299
Population
2,922/sq mi density
$58,972
Median Income
$32,915 per capita
$229,400
Home Value
$256,531 Zillow
$1,266
Median Rent
34.5% income on rent
62°F
Avg Temperature
301 sunny days/yr
946
Violent Crime/100K
5,861 property/100K
C+
Overall
2.9 / 5.0
Fair overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
B
Economy
3.4 / 5.0
$58,972 median income, 3.8% unemployment
A
Affordability
4.5 / 5.0
$229,400 home value, $1,266/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
946 violent crimes/100K (149% above avg)
C+
Education
2.9 / 5.0
23.2% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings
74
Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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Historic Markers
52
Officially designated historical markers from the Historical Marker Database
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Mines
2
Active and inactive mining sites tracked by the Mine Safety and Health Administration
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UFO Sightings Near Portsmouth, VA
74 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Portsmouth, VA.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Chesapeake, VA | 2014 | Slow moving object white in color moved away at a very high rate of speed, |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2014 | Large bright blue light in the sky breaks into three lights and descends. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2014 | Two flashing round orbs in the sky flashing red orange green blue N white. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2014 | A large white disk shaped object hovering or floating in sky on a clear morning and then it vanished. |
| Norfolk, VA | 2014 | ~50 bright tiny light steadily moving to same direction NE to SW. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2013 | A mid-level altitude, brilliant sphere flew over SW Chesapeake, VA on 06/05/13. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2013 | Red orange fireballs in a triangle shape hovering over 64. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2013 | Multi-color emitting light/star in the sky, extra brilliant, vanishes. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2013 | Dark triangular craft with bright yellow light and smaller red and blue lights moved at pace of 25-30 mph. |
| Norfolk, VA | 2013 | Two or three lights shoot across sky over naval base! |
| Norfolk, VA | 2013 | Yellow Light magnitude = to Jupiter. Location: approx 5 Degress South of Vega/Altair (Mid) axis. I was taking |
| Norfolk, VA | 2013 | Video taped 20-25 bright amber colored objects slowly moving in the night sky that slowly faded as they increased in altitude. |
| Norfolk, VA | 2013 | Bright orange light traveling in sky without sound over Norfolk, VA 8/13/13 |
| Portsmouth, VA | 2013 | Orange-red ball of fire flying through the sky. |
| Portsmouth, VA | 2013 | White light, moved very very fast. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2012 | Two intense, multi-colored, pulsating lights/objects aloft in vicinity of Chesapeake, VA |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2012 | Many red round spheres of light. All traveling together then ascended into the sky. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2012 | A formation of several orange circular lights gliding through the sky. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2012 | 7 to 8 orange balls in a line, 4 additional balls from top left coming down T an angle.no sound and I followed it across th sky as f |
| Norfolk, VA | 2012 | White lights, V-formation jetted thru sky then turned left and disappeared |
| Norfolk, VA | 2012 | Noticed 2 bright red lights in the sky. One appeared to be moving towards us and the other seemed to be stationary. The stationary obj |
| Norfolk, VA | 2012 | Cylindrical object with green and pink flash of light... |
| Norfolk, VA | 2012 | Disk Shaped Object Observed in Storm Cloud Formation Over Norfolk, Virginia |
| Norfolk, VA | 2012 | Triangle shaped |
| Portsmouth (city of), VA | 2012 | Bright bluish white circular light ascending and then hovering, than making a quick u-turn or 180, in comet like motion and descending. |
| Portsmouth, VA | 2012 | Bluish light going around in circles in the sky. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2011 | Bright light travelling across the night sky that dimmed, then became bright again several times as I watched. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2011 | 4 lights in sky |
| Norfolk, VA | 2011 | Bright and super fast spot of light traveled 45 deg and then right straight up in the sky |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2010 | Ufo orbs over skys in Chesapeake, VA |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2010 | Bright, strange light. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2010 | The bright fireball dimmeded in appearance, then changed its trajectory, before disapearing. |
| Norfolk/ portsmouth, VA | 2010 | UFOs spotted on I-264 into Norfolk VA |
| Portsmouth, VA | 2010 | I was coming home from picking up my dinner when I saw a bright orange-red light moving faster than anything I have ever seen. It was a |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2009 | Around 10:15 pm on September 14, 2009. My fiance and I witnessed a light traveling at a fast speed. At first glance we thought it was |
| Norfolk, VA | 2009 | Two daytime sightings of two different types of objects in the same general area 12 days apart. |
| Norfolk, VA | 2009 | A FLASH/BEAM OF LIGHT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD IN CLEAR SKY (NO SOUND) ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD)) |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2008 | Triangle formation of lights, one green over Dismal Swamp areaChesapeake, Va |
| Portsmouth, VA | 2008 | Strange, Blinking, White Lights-Hovering |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2007 | WE WERE WAS STOPPED AT THE RED LIGHT, AT THE INTERESECTION OF DOMINION BLVD. AND MOSES GRANDY TRAIL..(FACING WEST) AND WE SAW A FIREBAL |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2007 | Multiple objects visible at miles over Chesapeake VA Near Cornland park |
| Portsmouth, VA | 2007 | Bright orange object in sky in Northern Portsmouth |
| Portsmouth, VA | 2006 | A large white light in the sky traveling horizontally that appeared to be dropping fireballs |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2005 | large triangular object that was seen over our home |
| Norfolk, VA | 2005 | Norfolk UFO watches a storm? |
| Norfolk, VA | 2005 | When I was sitting there it was spinning around until it went up. |
| Norfolk, VA | 2004 | glowing needle over norfolk va |
| Portsmouth, VA | 2004 | Metallic oval shaped object that moved across the sky and then stopped and hovered and was out of sight with no trace. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2003 | The object was cigar shaped and did not have any wings or rodar. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2002 | From a Senior Correctional Officers eyes, what I've seen one night at work! |
| Norfolk, VA | 2002 | Silent Red V/Chevron of 6-7 lights over Norfolk, VA during Leonids. |
| Norfolk, VA | 2002 | WAS NOT SEEN IN NEVEDA, BUT IN NORFOLK, VA!!!! |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2001 | I saw 5 cigar shaped crafts in a V formation with lights. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 2001 | 4 glowing objects about 1/5th the size of a full moon seen on east coast Aug 4th 2001 |
| Norfolk, VA | 2001 | i was haveng a late coffee brake in my backyard when i look up at the sky and saw an object that seemed circular, because these 2 dim y |
| Chesapeake, VA | 1999 | I was doing some observations for my astronomy class tonight and I saw something very strange. I was looking west about forty five deg |
| Chesapeake, VA | 1999 | It was about the size of a mid-sized car. Very Bright yellowish orange. It moved parallel to the ground. |
| Norfolk, VA | 1999 | GREEN GLOWING LIGHT IN THE SKY 1/2 MOON SHAPE SEEING IN TWO DIFFRENT LOCATIONS AT THE SAME TIME, ABOUT 20 MILES APART - TODAY 4/1/99 WA |
| Norfolk, VA | 1998 | Intensely bright green fireball almost the diameter of the moon shot across the sky. Long bright green trail. Visible for 3 seconds o |
| Norfolk, VA | 1997 | 800 foot wide Boomerang shaped UFO floats over head at treetop level, with humming sound-next to Norfolk NAB, Virginia |
| Norfolk, VA | 1997 | Green, luminous round object that had a dark vertical line (or absense of light)appeared suddenly descended and disappeared. |
| Chesapeake, VA | 1995 | Man witnessed orange triangular obj. w/ light in center pass overhead. Surrounded by 20 red obj.. Very high. |
| Norfolk, VA | 1995 | Four adults witness "star" that moved to the northern sky. May have been other tiny objects around it. |
| Portsmouth, VA | 1994 | Two flashes of illuminating green light that lasted 3 seconds each & lit up the surrounding area. |
| Portsmouth, VA | 1992 | UFO sited in MY own yard ... the world felt like it stopped!!!!!! |
| Portsmouth, VA | 1986 | A trail of smoke |
| Portsmouth, VA | 1986 | squarelike object with a light |
| Portsmouth, VA | 1984 | circular object headed towards the sky |
| Norfolk, VA | 1966 | My dad Lcdr Lund said it was real later in my life, this was a Navy Secret. |
| Chesapeake (norfork area), VA | 1965 | lookng out bedroom window saw object going by aprox distance 1500ft away and about1000ft high speed about 400-600mph. whole object woul |
| Norfolk, VA | 1956 | Unidentified Object Hovering over Interstate 264, Norfolk, Virginia |
| Norfolk/newport news (aboard ferry boat between), VA | 1952 | Best recall as a SUnday night. From east side of ferry boat spotted string of brilliant red balls that apeared to be diving into the s |
| Portsmouth, VA | 1945 | 1945 RED FLICKERING V FORMATION CRAFTS MOVING EXTREEML FAST . |
| Norfolk/sizewell (uk/england) | 1943 | observing mans warfare |