Stafford, VA, USA
10-12 orange or reddish fireballs were seen high in the sky. They did not streak across the sky, but merely floated.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-17
- Where
- Stafford, VA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.422, -77.408 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-stafford-va-2012-e83775
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
Stafford, VA logged 4 reports in the single month of November 2012.
In context
- One of 31 documented reports from Stafford, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 150 sightings in 2012.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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