UFO Sightings in Virginia
2,512 UFO sightings reported in Virginia since 1945, peaking in 2013 (205 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 2,512
- Span
- 1945–2022
- Peak year
- 2013 (205 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1945–2022 · peak 2013 (205 reports)
Top cities in Virginia
Virginia Beach
1963–2020 · peak 2013 (18 reports)
Richmond
1975–2022 · peak 2013 (15 reports)
Alexandria
1963–2021 · peak 2019 (42 reports)
Chesapeake
1974–2020 · peak 2014 (7 reports)
Roanoke
1972–2022 · peak 2017 (10 reports)
Fredericksburg
1979–2021 · peak 2013 (7 reports)
Norfolk
1956–2021 · peak 2012 (6 reports)
Fairfax
1969–2020 · peak 2019 (16 reports)
Arlington
1952–2021 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Woodbridge
1975–2020 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Manassas
1980–2020 · peak 2014 (10 reports)
Portsmouth
1945–2020 · peak 2015 (8 reports)
Hampton
1973–2021 · peak 2013 (4 reports)
Charlottesville
1983–2021 · peak 2014 (4 reports)
Newport News
1980–2021 · peak 2001 (4 reports)
Stafford
1997–2020 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Lynchburg
2000–2021 · peak 2005 (4 reports)
Williamsburg
1977–2020 · peak 2008 (3 reports)
Winchester
1984–2022 · peak 2014 (4 reports)
Danville
1986–2018 · peak 2014 (3 reports)
Dale City · VA, USA
Huge lightning on the sky but that spreads over the sky like waves and the light in each wave last for at least 7 seconds then lighted
Williamsburg · VA, USA
White ball of light with blinking green light in front of it. Moving at a steady pace at a couple hundred feet up.
Portsmouth and Virginia Beach · VA, USA
Bright white and blue object next to the moon. I was traveling home when I saw it in Portsmouth Va about 20 minutes from my home in Vir
Chesapeake · VA, USA
Floating Light Vanishes Above Greenbrier, Chesapeake, VA
Roanoke · VA, USA
I went outside my apartment for a walk. I like to sit and swing at the communal playground and look at the stars while smoking. There w
Radford · VA, USA
High-altitude, fast, wiggling white light.
Aylett · VA, USA
Sitting on my front porch and looked up, thought it was a plane but it kept flashing super bright every minute or so across the sky in
Virginia Beach · VA, USA
2 people and dog present, saw multiple planetary bodies moving and behaving extremely erratically.
Buckingham · VA, USA
Large, bright light moving slowly across the sky at low altitude
Portsmouth · VA, USA
White object hoovering with a deliberate path
Huddleston · VA, USA
Close to Smith Mountain lake. Observed numerous orbs and one "tic tac" shaped craft. Craft where white/silver in color.
Vienna · VA, USA
Light at very high altitude began moving erratically for several minutes.
Suffolk · VA, USA
Early morning and clear night sky this was an absolute object with brilliant light that moving in many erratic directions and
Broadway · VA, USA
I was sitting on my neighbor's back porch eating pizza and chitchatting. I noticed my neighbor was watching something in the sky for a
VA · USA
Sleeping outside with the kids around midnight watching the stars. We saw a shimmering object that flew across the whole horizon in sec
Alexandria · VA, USA
I don't know if this is a craft or a star I don't know what it is it's stationary it's due South from my location I used a compass it's
Alexandria · VA, USA
I did not see the craft but I live on the 15th floor and very bright lights shown in my window with an unusual sound a mechanical noise
Hopewell · VA, USA
It was a bright sphere like object
Mt. Jackson · VA, USA
Bright fast moving oval object making sudden 90 degree turn
Marion · VA, USA
Large white glowing round light, no tail, but outward streams of light, moved horizontally across sky from southeast to east
Fairfax · VA, USA
Impossible movement for a plane or balloon
Portsmouth · VA, USA
Group of sparkling objects in the sky.
Windsor · VA, USA
Myself and a buddy were outside hanging out and I saw a white light, like that of a radio tower light, in one spot by a tree, I look at
Rice · VA, USA
Family witnessed multiple round lights coming from nowhere in formation until randomly separating. ((Starlink satellites??))
Suffolk · VA, USA
On June 27, 2021 my 5 year old daughter and I saw three of objects fly directly over head in downtown Suffolk. One stopped directly abo