CaseDisk2016

Prince William, VA, USA

Metallic donut-shaped disc UFO.

Report quality: Moderate40/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-15
Where
Prince William, VA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
40.442, -86.573 · fallback
Slug
disk-over-prince-william-va-2016-b2cb31
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Prince William, VA.
  • This case is one of 120 Virginia reports filed in 2016.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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