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)
Ashland · VA, USA
5 lights equally spaced trailing each other. Appearance looked like satellite crossing the sky. ((Starlink satellites?))
Virginia Beach · VA, USA
String of orange lights bright to translucent to gone.
Fairfax · VA, USA
MADAR Node 122
Fairfax · VA, USA
MADAR Node 122
Waynesboro · VA, USA
On 05/16/20 My video camera in my back yard recorded this strange moment . There were these balls of light were scanning my back yard o
Harrisonburg · VA, USA
Orange white ball of light east of Harrisonburg VA
Ashburn · VA, USA
many small bright dots flying in a line with a same distance from each other, disappearing isame location. ((Starlink satellites))
Fairfax · VA, USA
MADAR Node 122
Richmond · VA, USA
This was not a normal aircraft and I hope you can tell me it was because it was bizarre.
Colonial Beach · VA, USA
Saw 6 objects flying down the Potomac.
Williamsburg · VA, USA
40 plus lights detected in the sky traveling at a high rate of speed straight in a line. ((Starlink satellites?))
Chesapeake · VA, USA
Five lights (looked like stars) moving south one behind the other and disappeared in succession. ((Starlink satellites?))
Ruther Glen · VA, USA
Large ufo in Ruther Glen, VA. ((Starlink satellites?))
Roanoke · VA, USA
Large cigar shaped craft hovering motionless over a mountain near Spring Hollow Reservoir.
Hampton · VA, USA
I didn't think about recording because at that time I honestly was looking not thinking About recording i couldn't believe it.
Singers Glen · VA, USA
Five white lights evenly spaced in single file. Moving from SW to North above Little North Mountain. ((Spacelink satellites))
Newport News · VA, USA
I walked out of my husbands home office door, into our backyard. I looked up and saw a very shiny chrome colored cylinder shaped object
Norfolk · VA, USA
This is from a video I saw on-line. It's from the U.S. Naval Base at Norfolk, Virginia. At 9:07,(minutes/seconds) thru 9:10 of the v
Pulaski · VA, USA
I was about to go to bed when i looked out the window and saw 5 white orbs or lights in the distance high in the sky behind my house.Th
Lynchburg · VA, USA
On the date and approximate time, I was informed by a friend that he and his girlfriend where observing a chevron shaped object in the
Williamsburg · VA, USA
Driving when i saw a giant bright blue jellyfish looking object high in the sky going down until it went behind trees
Leesburg · VA, USA
Vertical string of lights. ((Starlink satellites))
Ararat · VA, USA
there are white lights and color changing lights in the sky every night everybody around has seen no one seems to know what yhey are. t
Arlington · VA, USA
Fighter planes chase light over Washington, DC, area.
Ridgeway · VA, USA
A bright round light that changed brightnesses and moves off in a northwest direction