CaseDisk1998
Sterling, VA, USA
Close encounter in Sterling near the water tower. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-15
- Where
- Sterling, VA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 min
- Geo
- 39.006, -77.429 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-sterling-va-1998-9c9ed2
In context
- This is one of 18 reports logged in Sterling, VA.
- This case is one of 31 Virginia reports filed in 1998.
- Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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.