Potomac Falls, VA, USA
I saw 3 lights at high altitude. At first I thought it was 3 separate objects but all 3 lights moved at the same speed (very slowly) di
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-20
- Where
- Potomac Falls, VA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.050, -77.401 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-potomac-falls-va-2005-bdd7b3
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 1 reports logged in Potomac Falls, VA.
- This case is one of 75 Virginia reports filed in 2005.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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