CaseDisk1978

Sterling Park (near Dulles Airport), VA, USA

My brother, sister and I saw several strange lights in the sky descending slowing towards the ground. My sis and bro looked thru binoc

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-01
Where
Sterling Park (near Dulles Airport), VA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 minutes?
Geo
39.004, -77.401 · exact
Slug
disk-over-sterling-park-near-dulles-airport-va-1978-543c94
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Sterling Park (near Dulles Airport), VA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 3 reports from Virginia.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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