Fredericksburg, VA, USA
A white light in the eastern sky. Stationary for a few minutes, moved north.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-14
- Where
- Fredericksburg, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.303, -77.461 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-fredericksburg-va-2020-45b4d0
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
- Fredericksburg, VA shows up 55 times across the archive.
- 106 reports came from Virginia in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.