UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

Manassas, VA, USA

Huge glowing green object in Northern VA. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-12-11
Where
Manassas, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 - 20 sec.
Geo
38.751, -77.475 · exact
Slug
light-over-manassas-va-2004-5ac2ca
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 39 documented reports from Manassas, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 55 sightings in 2004.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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