Stafford, VA, USA
Luminous Bright Orange Lightballs Traveling in a Pattern in Stafford VA
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-17
- Where
- Stafford, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.422, -77.408 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-stafford-va-2012-110b6f
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Stafford, VA reports filed in November 2012.
In context
- Stafford, VA shows up 31 times across the archive.
- 150 reports came from Virginia in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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