CaseLight2015

Sterling, VA, USA

1 light extremely brighter than the other. Sat in place for at least 15 minutes then both slowly disappeared. Seen over Dullas Town.

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 (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-07-08
Where
Sterling, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
39.006, -77.429 · exact
Slug
light-over-sterling-va-2015-b4d6fb
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

  • One of 18 documented reports from Sterling, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 151 sightings in 2015.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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