Chantilly, VA, USA
Cylindrical object, approx. 10 feet in length, with undulating protrusions ,reflective area at its top, impervious to head winds
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-10
- Where
- Chantilly, VA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.894, -77.431 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-chantilly-va-2019-a28609
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
- One of 12 documented reports from Chantilly, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 194 sightings in 2019.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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