Leesburg, VA, USA
Two adult females traveling northbound on VA Route 621 witnessed a bright green spherical object, seemingly fire-based traveling rapidl
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-26
- Where
- Leesburg, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 39.116, -77.564 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-leesburg-va-2017-16dcb1
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…
In context
- Leesburg, VA shows up 23 times across the archive.
- 104 reports came from Virginia in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.