UFOMYST
CaseCircle2009

Falls Church, VA, USA

At 11:15pm on April 17, 2009, four bright objects were sighted flying at a very high speed, in a strange pattern, over N. Va

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-04-17
Where
Falls Church, VA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
8 seconds
Geo
38.882, -77.171 · exact
Slug
circle-over-falls-church-va-2009-a788c5
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 19 reports logged in Falls Church, VA.
  • This case is one of 82 Virginia reports filed in 2009.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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