UFOMYST
CaseFormation2021

Aldie, VA, USA

Dozens of lights moving in single-filed formation flying east

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-08
Where
Aldie, VA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1:30
Geo
38.976, -77.641 · exact
Slug
formation-over-aldie-va-2021-340a37
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…

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In context

  • Aldie, VA shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 59 reports came from Virginia in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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