UFOMYST
CaseFireball2011

Sterling, VA, USA

There is One bright floating object RIGHT NOW over Dullas international airport being circled by a police helecopter. eyes can not see

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-12-22
Where
Sterling, VA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
at leat one hour and goin
Geo
39.006, -77.429 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-sterling-va-2011-83baf8
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

  • This is one of 18 reports logged in Sterling, VA.
  • This case is one of 100 Virginia reports filed in 2011.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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