Fairfax, VA, USA
4-5 objects flying to center and shooting back out. The center point appeared to move Southeast over 30 minutes over tall buildings an
Report quality: High73/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-05
- Where
- Fairfax, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- Ongoing
- Geo
- 38.846, -77.306 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-fairfax-va-2019-b2cb91
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 5 Fairfax, VA reports filed in October 2019.
In context
- Fairfax, VA shows up 50 times across the archive.
- 194 reports came from Virginia in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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