Dale City, VA, USA
((HOAX??)) I saw a redish glow so I looked up and there were 4 red balls hovering over my house.
Report quality: Low15/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2004-05-13
- Where
- Dale City, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 38.637, -77.311 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-dale-city-va-2004-050133
Part of a wave
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
- Dale City, VA shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 55 reports came from Virginia in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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