UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Ashburn, VA, USA

Bright red lights over Ashburn, Virginia

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-18
Where
Ashburn, VA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
39.044, -77.487 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-ashburn-va-2012-208956
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…

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In context

  • Ashburn, VA shows up 22 times across the archive.
  • 150 reports came from Virginia in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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.