UFOMYST
CaseCone2009

Leesburg, VA, USA

Object with cone shaped tail rises above Dulles, VA. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2009-09-19
Where
Leesburg, VA, USA
Shape
Cone
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
39.116, -77.564 · exact
Slug
cone-over-leesburg-va-2009-842733
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Leesburg, VA has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 2009 brought 82 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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