UFOMYST
CaseLight2021

Sterling, VA, USA

Two ruby red dots, appeared out of thin air and within seconds were miles apart moving abnormally clockwise and counter clock wise.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-07-01
Where
Sterling, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
39.006, -77.429 · exact
Slug
light-over-sterling-va-2021-6c6cea
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Sterling, VA shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 59 reports came from Virginia in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.