CaseSphere2012
Woodbridge, VA, USA
Four red glowing lights in a formation (lined up).
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-08
- Where
- Woodbridge, VA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.658, -77.250 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-woodbridge-va-2012-32795e
Wave
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 41 reports logged in Woodbridge, VA.
- This case is one of 150 Virginia reports filed in 2012.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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