UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Stafford, VA, USA

Very bright light with small light circling around it.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-28
Where
Stafford, VA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
38.422, -77.408 · exact
Slug
circle-over-stafford-va-2016-c38624
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Stafford, VA in March 2016 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Stafford, VA has 31 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 120 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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