Middleburg, VA, USA
Large metallic oval shape spotted just off Rt. 50 between Middleburg & Upperville, Va. does a full loop and disappears.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-11-16
- Where
- Middleburg, VA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.969, -77.736 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-middleburg-va-2018-548c33
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Middleburg, VA.
- This case is one of 74 Virginia reports filed in 2018.
- Oval craft made up 4.1% of 2010s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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