UFOMYST
CaseLight2020

Arlington, VA, USA

Fighter planes chase light over Washington, DC, area.

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-02-04
Where
Arlington, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
38.881, -77.104 · exact
Slug
light-over-arlington-va-2020-2a8a67
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

  • Arlington, VA has 44 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 106 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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