Alexandria, VA, USA
A huge craft that appeared to be attempting to cloak itself soundlessly flew from the west to the east and blended into the night sky.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-08
- Where
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 38.805, -77.047 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-alexandria-va-2004-215a96
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
- Alexandria, VA shows up 112 times across the archive.
- 55 reports came from Virginia in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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