CaseFlash2009

Midlothian, VA, USA

I saw a bright blue flame that was streaking down and then it intensified at least 3 times brighter and dissapeared.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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)
  • Moderate witness text (116 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-09-04
Where
Midlothian, VA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
2 sec
Geo
37.506, -77.649 · exact
Slug
flash-over-midlothian-va-2009-1351eb
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

  • Midlothian, VA has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 82 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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