CaseCylinder2008

Stafford, VA, USA

Strange sighting in Stafford, Va.

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 (33 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-31
Where
Stafford, VA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 mins
Geo
38.422, -77.408 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-stafford-va-2008-8c43e7
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

  • One of 31 documented reports from Stafford, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 100 sightings in 2008.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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