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
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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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