Purcellville, VA, USA
Bright circle of lights with red lights around it and then white lights, hovering then moving off slowly
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: 660s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-09-14
- Where
- Purcellville, VA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10-12 minutes
- Geo
- 39.137, -77.715 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-purcellville-va-2008-568730
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
- Purcellville, VA has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 100 reports from Virginia.
Report
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