Glen Allen, VA, USA
Driving S, an hour before dusk a very bright white light appeared. It was several times the size of any visible star.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-25
- Where
- Glen Allen, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~5 seconds
- Geo
- 37.666, -77.506 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-glen-allen-va-2017-383fac
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
- Glen Allen, VA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 104 reports came from Virginia in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% 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.