Aldie, VA, USA
Large white globe/sphere streaking at 45 degree angle to earth. Loudoun County, Virginia.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-12-05
- Where
- Aldie, VA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- ~2 seconds
- Geo
- 38.976, -77.641 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-aldie-va-2015-d09b81
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
- Aldie, VA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 151 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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