CaseLight1963
Alexandria, VA, USA
Witnesses near Mount Vernon in Alexandria, Virginia described four red lights moving toward the Potomac River in the early evening of April 1963, in a sighting lasting about 15 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (185 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-04-20
- Where
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 38.805, -77.047 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-alexandria-va-1963-255d36
In context
- This is one of 112 reports logged in Alexandria, VA.
- This case is one of 3 Virginia reports filed in 1963.
- Light craft made up 11.3% of 1960s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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