CaseFormation2011
Leesburg, VA, USA
3 rapidly blinking (shimmering) lights in formation
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-05-25
- Where
- Leesburg, VA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3-5 mins.
- Geo
- 39.116, -77.564 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-leesburg-va-2011-6485a5
Wave
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
- One of 23 documented reports from Leesburg, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 100 sightings in 2011.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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