CaseLight2013

Winchester, VA, USA

Many Red Lights Observed South of Winchester, VA.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-01-17
Where
Winchester, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
25 minute
Geo
39.186, -78.163 · exact
Slug
light-over-winchester-va-2013-0b6430
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

  • Winchester, VA shows up 25 times across the archive.
  • 205 reports came from Virginia in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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