McLean, VA, USA
Three balls of light (BOLs), bobbing in circular formation, seen in midafternoon low over homes .
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-10
- Where
- McLean, VA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- One Minute
- Geo
- 38.934, -77.177 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-mclean-va-2005-19d6f6
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…
In context
- This is one of 8 reports logged in McLean, VA.
- This case is one of 75 Virginia reports filed in 2005.
- Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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