Rustburg, VA, USA
it was four reddish orange lights then they turn white and it took off pretty fast faster then any plane i've ever seen
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-05
- Where
- Rustburg, VA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 37.277, -79.101 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-rustburg-va-2005-8c60b4
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 2 reports logged in Rustburg, VA.
- This case is one of 75 Virginia reports filed in 2005.
Report
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