Forest, VA, USA
4 or 5 rows of white lights that made the shape of a rectangle tower , it was hovering over neighbors house for at least 30 min.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-03-20
- Where
- Forest, VA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 37.364, -79.290 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-forest-va-2017-d0d502
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
- Forest, VA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 104 reports came from Virginia in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
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.