CaseDisk1980
Sterling, VA, USA
Glowing UFO over Sterling, 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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (29 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-06-15
- Where
- Sterling, VA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 8 secs
- Geo
- 39.006, -77.429 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-sterling-va-1980-488ec4
In context
- Sterling, VA shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from Virginia in 1980.
- In the 1980s, 14.3% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.