Chantilly, VA, USA
Observed a 3 seconds of glint off a low flying object in sky over Chantilly VA in late afternoon before it vanished.
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (116 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-11
- Where
- Chantilly, VA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 38.894, -77.431 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-chantilly-va-2019-fc2507
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
- Chantilly, VA shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 194 reports came from Virginia in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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