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)
Woodbridge · VA, USA
3 ooval objects came from about 75 degrees at high speed and turned West at steady speed.Object were engulphed in red and orange like f
Arlington · VA, USA
Sitting on couch watching TV and saw out my window a large 'falling star' entering from the west and falling earthward.
Danville · VA, USA
unusual colored flashing strobe lights
Virginia Beach · VA, USA
a ball of light shot over my head.
Manassas · VA, USA
sitting outside, saw bright light in sky, traveling at a high speed.
Rocky Mount (4mi s.e. of) · VA, USA
a giant craft well over 100' in diameter slightly tilted down toward its direction of travel aproximately 1 mile or so directly east of
Winchester · VA, USA
i tracked 2 objects flying high from n.w to s.e., when the lead object emmited a brillient light, much brighter than an airplane strobe
Lovingston (East of) · VA, USA
Between 23:30 and 24:00 a vapor trail
Wachapreague · VA, USA
Orange cigar shaped light about one thousand feet in the sky. Disappeared and then came returned about five minutes later.
Virginia Beach · VA, USA
It looked like a thick glowing trail of an airplane. It took hard right angle turns. It was enormous and miles high in the sky.
Colonial Heights · VA, USA
a round light started glowing as if there was a fog or cloud in front of it then it got brighter moved slowly to the the right stoppin
Baileys Cross Roads (just outside Wash DC) · VA, USA
sighting of 4 oval objects that did not look like balloons or aircraft
Manassas · VA, USA
i witnessed a bright spherical object that hovered at a low alt. and moved very slowly. the object dissapeared and reapearred a moment
Fort A.P. Hill/ Bowling Green · VA, USA
While Crossing a major 4 lane High way. I watched A bright oval, cross the sky and fade away.
Reston · VA, USA
i WAS OUTSIDE ON THE BALCONY, IT HOOVERED ABOVE TREES WAS DISC SHAPPED, I COULD SEE the red running lights;there was no noise and then
Virginia (while driving on I-95; 2 hrs S of Wash. · D.C.), VA, USA
cigar-shaped whitish object, hovering (possibly moving slightly, north to south)
Shenandoah County (over the town of) · VA, USA
I was looking at the stars as it was a very clear night. I saw what I thought was a star that started to move. As I watched it go acros
Reston · VA, USA
large, spherical, very bright object, flew very fast from south to north, disappeared in an instant.
Virginia Beach · VA, USA
very bright flash of lights chaging positons but staying in a general area. but it was very very high in the sky might have been 3 or 4
Fort Defiance · VA, USA
Using 10" dobsonian telescope at the moon I saw a black object zoom across.
Richmond · VA, USA
Two craft flew slowly parallel for two minutes, then one stayed the course,the other veered off, sunlight gleaming off it`s side. Seeme
Burke · VA, USA
It could heard us speaking to it.
Oakton · VA, USA
Something burst out of the sky and plummeted downward. It had a green glow like fire and no tail of light visible. It then disappeare
Charlottesville · VA, USA
On this night I was with 4 other people and we were hanging out outside as it was a nice evening. It was just getting dusk and I was si
Galax · VA, USA
Blue orb seen in southwest mountains of Virginia in 1999.