Locust Grove, VA, USA
Light in night sky traveling at high speed and making a right angle turn without changing velocity.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-15
- Where
- Locust Grove, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 to 2 seconds
- Geo
- 38.709, -78.648 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-locust-grove-va-2004-2de928
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
- Locust Grove, VA shows up 1 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%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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