Stephens City, VA, USA
I also just previously logged my first sighting. I was not going to document anything until I seen what I had seen tonight.( I had
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-08
- Where
- Stephens City, VA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- 39.083, -78.218 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-stephens-city-va-2008-385357
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
- Stephens City, VA shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 100 reports came from Virginia in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
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