CaseLight2009

Winchester, VA, USA

Witnessed multi-colored light hanging very low in the sky to the east; changed colors. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius. PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 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
2009-11-27
Where
Winchester, VA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 min
Geo
39.186, -78.163 · exact
Slug
light-over-winchester-va-2009-33de15
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…

In context

  • Winchester, VA shows up 25 times across the archive.
  • 82 reports came from Virginia in 2009.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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