CaseUnknown2020
Colonial Beach, VA, USA
Saw 6 objects flying down the Potomac.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-04-27
- Where
- Colonial Beach, VA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 38.255, -76.964 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-colonial-beach-va-2020-d97362
Wave
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 4 reports logged in Colonial Beach, VA.
- This case is one of 106 Virginia reports filed in 2020.
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.