UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Fairfax, VA, USA

I saw a orange circular object flying higher than normal. ((anonymous source))

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 618s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-01
Where
Fairfax, VA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10.30
Geo
38.846, -77.306 · exact
Slug
circle-over-fairfax-va-2020-635aa7
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 50 reports logged in Fairfax, VA.
  • This case is one of 106 Virginia reports filed in 2020.
  • Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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