CaseUnknown1998
Sterling, VA, USA
Two witnesses- a large star with four smaller stars revolving around it.
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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-08-15
- Where
- Sterling, VA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 8-10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.006, -77.429 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-sterling-va-1998-400ba1
In context
- Sterling, VA shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 31 reports came from Virginia in 1998.
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.