UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2005

Leesburg, VA, USA

Very bright flash with a tail seen in the night sky on Oct. 31, 2005 between 21:00 and 21:30 over Leesburg, VA.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-10-31
Where
Leesburg, VA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
few seconds
Geo
39.116, -77.564 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-leesburg-va-2005-e9d2d6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 23 documented reports from Leesburg, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 75 sightings in 2005.

Report

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