UFOMYST
CaseChanging2012

Reston, VA, USA

Red/orange, round, glowing object moving slowly and southeast at 1:45AM on 12/05/12.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-12-05
Where
Reston, VA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
38.969, -77.341 · exact
Slug
changing-over-reston-va-2012-54b4d0
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

  • Reston, VA has 14 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 150 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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