Occoquan, VA, USA
Red dot hovering next to white dot for 5 minutes then inched away toward the left, hovered for 5 more minutes - not a plane
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-03-16
- Where
- Occoquan, VA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 38.684, -77.260 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-occoquan-va-2018-c5246f
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 3 reports logged in Occoquan, VA.
- This case is one of 74 Virginia reports filed in 2018.
- Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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