Stafford, VA, USA
My husband and I saw a swarm of bright-colored (red and white) objects floating noiselessly very low to the ground.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-17
- Where
- Stafford, VA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.422, -77.408 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-stafford-va-2012-e80b27
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Stafford, VA in November 2012 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Stafford, VA has 31 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 150 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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