CaseCircle1985
Sterling, VA, USA
Unknown object in sky, over Sterling VA in the early 1980s
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1985-06-30
- Where
- Sterling, VA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.006, -77.429 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-sterling-va-1985-a68a05
In context
- Sterling, VA has 18 sightings on file here.
- 1985 brought 6 reports from Virginia.
- The 1980s skewed 8.2% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.