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Virginia Beach, VA
Virginia · Virginia Beach city · Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk Metro
Virginia Beach is a large city in Virginia with a population of 457,066. Residents earn $90,685 per year, which is 21% above the national average.
3.6
/5.0
B+
Good
457,066
Population
1,868/sq mi density
$90,685
Median Income
$47,372 per capita
$366,300
Home Value
$418,508 Zillow
$1,649
Median Rent
31.1% income on rent
62°F
Avg Temperature
303 sunny days/yr
129
Violent Crime/100K
1,761 property/100K
B+
Overall
3.6 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
A+
Economy
4.6 / 5.0
$90,685 median income, 2.7% unemployment
A
Affordability
4.4 / 5.0
$366,300 home value, $1,649/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
129 violent crimes/100K (66% below avg)
A
Education
4.2 / 5.0
40.4% bachelor's degree or higher
Explore Near Virginia Beach
UFO Sightings
96
Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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Historic Markers
13
Officially designated historical markers from the Historical Marker Database
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Mines
3
Active and inactive mining sites tracked by the Mine Safety and Health Administration
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Bigfoot Sightings
1
Eyewitness reports filed with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization
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UFO Sightings Near Virginia Beach, VA
96 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Virginia Beach, VA.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia beach, VA | 2014 | One bright traveling light splits into two in Virginia Beach sky. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2014 | Approximately three to four white rockets appeared with trails-gray UFO flying low in trees then, disappeared. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2014 | Craft crosses in front of commercial airplane. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | Metalic object bigger than empire state building appeared to rise up in blue aura of light. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | An orange-reddish light was seen over Virginia Beach. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | Very distinct flash in the eyes beam of light directing me towards the "star" object darting through sky |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | 12/22/13 08:45 Virginia Beach VA white egg shape object hovered for 1 hour and dissappeared after cloud cover came in. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | Cigar shaped green purple lights huge object if anyone knows plz research! -VA |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | 24 orange lights traveling at a constant speed in some kind of formation, none of the lights strayed away. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | V-shaped moving slow over houses. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | Orange like Firery ball steadily flying from one end of sky to another- no sound- no flashing. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | I was outside talking on the phone when I looked up at saw two strange orange lights in the sky. I saw a black circle fall from the sky |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | Small orb like object, made quick sharp turns, very very fast and from my vantage point appeared to be red. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | Unknown line of white lights moving slowly to the North North East |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | Lights in triangle shape then a line. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | Dark circle with orange light above no sound, no flashing, slowly crossing sky. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | 3 white lights flying over the East Coast just above the cloud ceiling moving like birds in formation |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | Bright white light spotted hovering in the sky, then disappears. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | 2 fast helicopters chasing themselves or something. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | Orange Lights in Triangular Formation over Virginia Beach. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2013 | 3 fireballs going vertical. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2012 | Saw a small,boxlike object with spikes or antenna travelling slowly over the city. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2012 | Colored round balls of green and orange over the skies of virginia beach VA |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2012 | Small fiery orange sphere floats over Va Beach neighborhood and travels slowly, silently and steadily away. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2012 | Observed a fast moving spherical object moving horizontally across the eastern horizon. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2012 | Bright orange orbs off VA Beach, VA coast. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2012 | Multi-colored spot of bright light near oceanfront/Dam Neck Naval Station |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2011 | Possible UFO sighting. Unknown. Orange/dimming ball. Went across the beach towards the ocean. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2011 | fast and low flying triangular object with red lights over Va Beach, Va area |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2011 | orb shaped, hovering UFO during the day in virginia beach on march 29, 2011. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2011 | Blue oval object over ocean in front of a lightning storm move at a high rate of speed. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2011 | Fire ball off I-264 |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2011 | There was a bright red light that shot straight up out of the water on the ocean side of the Cheasapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. |
| Virgnia beach, VA | 2011 | Triangle with white/yelllow lights over Towncenter Va Beach |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2010 | @ the intersection of Priness Anne Road & Upton Drive, near Red Mill Commons... |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2010 | Sphere seen traveling at a high rate of speed over Virginia Beach |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2010 | Ufo In Virginia Beach |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2010 | Ball of light, smaller lights flying, flying saucer |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2009 | Lights seen in Virginia Beach sky |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2009 | huge moon like blue white spheres flashed in night sky accompanied by loud booms |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2009 | Purple fire trail from debris headed east at rapid pace, leaving thunder boom in its wake. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2009 | Brief, bright light--high in the sky. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2008 | 3 starish kind of things, orangish, in a formation of a triangle. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD)) |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2008 | Triangular craft, solid white lights with red center over Oceana Air Force Base Virginia Beach, VA |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2008 | Bright light seen in Virginia Beach |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2008 | this object was very high up and emmited no sound.! |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2008 | Craft that was bright and looked like it was on fire was 300 yards away and came closer and I put a light on it, and it came closer. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2008 | ((SERIOUS REPORT??)) We saw a strange light in the sky; saw two strange looking men in a grocery store, one of which, I spoke with. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2008 | orange lights in southern VA |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2007 | Metallic sphere floating 20 feet in air in Virgina Beach |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2007 | Brilliant orange light seemed to be emitting from something above as if it were propulsion. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2007 | Small black sphere dancing in Virgina Beach sky |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2007 | A bright light that came closer to photographer with each camera flash; green, orange and violet haze around the orb. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2006 | ((POSSIBLE HOAX)) A triangular craft with solid red and flashing white lights hovering strangely over Virginia Beach, VA late at night. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2005 | I was on the beach really early in the am, with my friend arguing about the diff colors the stars emits when they burn at diff temps, g |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2005 | Bright light gains size over, and vanishes over Lesnor Bridge, in Virginia Beach! |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2005 | Sighting in Virginia Beach near Pungo |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2005 | 3rd night of Orb sighting in Larkspur area of Virginia Beach |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2005 | Large object in Virginia |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2004 | Orange lights seen moving very fast across the sky above the clouds from east to west. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2003 | Glowing fireball type orb with a tail of some sort, with strange movements, and then unimaginable speed to disapear. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2003 | I saw it too! |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2003 | A jet-black triangle with white lights at it's corners and one flashing in the center which emmitted a haunting sound. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2003 | sighting during lunar eclipse |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2003 | Bright green light "draws" serveral strange marks over the Atlantic Ocean |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2003 | While packing to leave my beach house, I looked up and saw a large, odd-shaped cloud that was very clearly glowing with a blue-green li |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2003 | 2 FLASHES OF BRIGHT GREEN LIGHT, 10 SECONDS APART |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2002 | 2 sets of moving parallel lights, 1 nrth/south of each other which criss crossed, 1 ea/wst which moving fast |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2002 | It appeared instantly out of nowhere and slowly came towards us then stood still then instanly shot off away from us in a split second. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2002 | Black triangular object silently hovered in sky at cloud level for aprox 10 mins before the darkness of night and storm obscured it. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2002 | Glowing UFO spotted around a military airstation |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2001 | Solid diamond shaped craft moving incredibly slow and silent E/SE in VA Beach on 2-11-01 |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2001 | A silver cylinder hovering in the sky near Oceana Naval Air Station. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2001 | lights moving quickly in sky |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2001 | shaped like a stealth bomber (boomerang like, but more triangluar) flat-black in color, made a deep humming sound either really low to |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2000 | last summer while recording a low flying airplane at my rc club field,something above the airplane flew by with great speed super fast, |
| Virginia beach, VA | 2000 | I saw what seemed to be 5 separate lights in the eastern sky. One bright light and 4 smaller and less bright lights. The lights were in |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1999 | very bright flash of lights chaging positons but staying in a general area. but it was very very high in the sky might have been 3 or 4 |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1999 | It looked like a thick glowing trail of an airplane. It took hard right angle turns. It was enormous and miles high in the sky. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1999 | a ball of light shot over my head. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1998 | 2 fireballs flying north to southwest about the speed of jetliner. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1997 | White, spherical object moving in a NW trajectory, silent, moving extremely fast. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1997 | I was laying in my bed watching tv with the windows open and I saw this Bright yellow light fly across the sky then all of a suden It s |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1995 | Man & wife witness twinkling light to east. It "drifted left, moved, then disappeared." (Possible star?) |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1995 | A circular object with lights on the bottom, flying very low to the house, possibly about six stories high, there was a humming noise. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1995 | Mother heard high-pitch whine pass over house. Daughter witnessed large circular craft w/ multiple circular whitish, yellow lights. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1994 | I say almost disk shaped because the edges did not come to a point but were straight, could have been cigar shaped at an angle. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1993 | Bright flash and blue ring of fire emitting vapor trail |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1991 | dark triangular craft, white lights on corners, red light center underneath followed by a smaller, disk shaped craft, white lights arou |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1988 | A “group of four lights appeared in the sky, stopped dead still, then went back the way they came and shot straight up in the sky." |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1986 | Two creatures or aliens in Bay Colony, no UFO. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1983 | Cloaked lights in the trees |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1980 | A "cylinder [shaped] object” that had a “white light with a red dot” and was “over roof top” and then “went behind the houses." |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1973 | Group of friends an I follow a UFO on bicycles, I have a sighting alone about a week later. |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1965 | My father and I saw a domed flying saucer very clear whizz directly in front of us on the oceanfront |
| Virginia beach, VA | 1963 | 4 glowing circles 40 ft in diameter flying in rigid formation - aerial acrobatics 100 ft off the beach for > 15 minutes -many witnesses |