CaseLight2004

Alexandria, VA, USA

Very bright white point of light in northern sky at dusk.

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-07-30
Where
Alexandria, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
25 min
Geo
38.805, -77.047 · exact
Slug
light-over-alexandria-va-2004-98310f
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…

In context

  • Alexandria, VA shows up 112 times across the archive.
  • 55 reports came from Virginia in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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