CaseFlash2007
Springfield, VA, USA
Bright light in Cardinal Plaza. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (31 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-11-11
- Where
- Springfield, VA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 Seconds
- Geo
- 38.789, -77.187 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-springfield-va-2007-1d1b4b
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Springfield, VA shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 71 reports came from Virginia in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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