Gainesville, VA, USA
Large Red Glowing Orb Seen Landing In Virginia
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-06-28
- Where
- Gainesville, VA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 1 Minute
- Geo
- 38.796, -77.614 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-gainesville-va-2009-81d96d
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 — 3 Gainesville, VA reports filed in June 2009.
In context
- Gainesville, VA shows up 14 times across the archive.
- 82 reports came from Virginia in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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