CaseChanging1998
Vienna, VA, USA
This object hovered a few hundred feet above the Tysons Marriot for over 5 min. It seemed to have erratic movements (up & down)
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-04-14
- Where
- Vienna, VA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5-7 minutes
- Geo
- 38.901, -77.265 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-vienna-va-1998-759c45
In context
- Vienna, VA has 22 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 31 reports from Virginia.
- The 1990s skewed 1.9% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.