Sterling, VA, USA
1 light extremely brighter than the other. Sat in place for at least 15 minutes then both slowly disappeared. Seen over Dullas Town.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-08
- Where
- Sterling, VA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.006, -77.429 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sterling-va-2015-b4d6fb
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
- One of 18 documented reports from Sterling, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 151 sightings in 2015.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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