UFOMYST
CaseChanging2009

Ashburn, VA, USA

I was in the back yard reading a book. I felt a inclination to look up. As I did I saw a bright reflective silvery cylindrical object (

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-02-08
Where
Ashburn, VA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
39.044, -77.487 · exact
Slug
changing-over-ashburn-va-2009-0e5ef1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Ashburn, VA has 22 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 82 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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