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CaseOther2004

Fairfax County, VA, USA

I was shopping in the Crossroads Shopping Center in Fairlax County on Route 7 (between Alexandria and Falls Church). I saw an object wi

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-01-02
Where
Fairfax County, VA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
15 min
Geo
38.835, -77.276 · exact
Slug
other-over-fairfax-county-va-2004-f46f9c
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

  • Fairfax County, VA has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 55 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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