Route 66 West (Exit 50), VA, USA
It was super fast. Idk what it was to be honest but It really freaked me out. I know it wasn't a shooting star cause it was a lot bigge
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.
- Duration parsed: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-26
- Where
- Route 66 West (Exit 50), VA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- flash-over-route-66-west-exit-50-va-2016-0269b4
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
- Route 66 West (Exit 50), VA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 120 reports from Virginia.
- The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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