Burke, VA, USA
Large, flat triangular craft with red lights right above the tree line.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (71 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-01
- Where
- Burke, VA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 min
- Geo
- 38.793, -77.272 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-burke-va-2011-3ba4d3
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
- One of 16 documented reports from Burke, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Virginia logged 100 sightings in 2011.
- Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).
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.