UFOMYST
CaseSphere2009

Arlington, VA, USA

Sphere that jolted, changed shape and color.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-04-24
Where
Arlington, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 hour
Geo
38.881, -77.104 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-arlington-va-2009-4f9d2f
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

  • This is one of 44 reports logged in Arlington, VA.
  • This case is one of 82 Virginia reports filed in 2009.
  • Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.