CaseCircle2004

Alexandria, VA, USA

Moving bright light, March 9, 2004, 7:57 PM, Alexandria Va.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-03-09
Where
Alexandria, VA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
<1 minute
Geo
38.805, -77.047 · exact
Slug
circle-over-alexandria-va-2004-86732b
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…

In context

  • This is one of 112 reports logged in Alexandria, VA.
  • This case is one of 55 Virginia reports filed in 2004.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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