NUFORC Reports for State VA

Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation
Open	02/27/1995 12:00	Harrisonburg	VA	USA		Mennonite College instructor reports UFO flap is in process in that area of PA	02/27/1995
Open	01/22/1995 17:50	Vienna	VA	USA		U.S. Dept. of Energy empl. w/ wife & son witness two green spheres, joined by "gold light," streak overhead.	01/23/1995
Open	02/28/1995 19:00	Harrisonburg	VA	USA		Journalist calls seeking information regarding recent multiple sightings near Harrisonburg, VA.	03/02/1995
Open	03/11/1995 03:00	Chesapeake	VA	USA		Man witnessed orange triangular obj. w/ light in center pass overhead. Surrounded by 20 red obj.. Very high.	03/12/1995
Open	03/12/1995 21:00	Norfolk	VA	USA		Four adults witness "star" that moved to the northern sky. May have been other tiny objects around it.	03/12/1995
Open	03/15/1995 23:17	Vienna	VA	USA		Retired senior comm. pilot, wife, & daughter (comm. pilot) see obj. streak vertically down in western sky.	03/15/1995
Open	03/17/1995 22:00	Evington	VA	USA		Woman sees "star" approach, stop, descend, move forward, disappear. Other multiple sightings near Lynchburg.	03/22/1995
Open	03/22/1995 05:10	Bedford	VA	USA		Man, co-workers witness strange, amber light darting fast in morning sky. Faded and reappeared three times.	03/22/1995
Open	05/19/1995 22:15	Mt. Jackson	VA	USA		Woman repts. witnessing 3 saucer-shaped object over neighbor's house. They looked like "ball of fire." Deputy also witnesses.	05/20/1995
Open	06/10/1995 23:20	Glade Spring	VA	USA		Woman, children, and grandmother witness 4 bizarre, bright green "stars" hovering nearby. Suddenly got brighter, streak off.	06/11/1995
Open	04/12/1995 21:45	Richmond	VA	USA		Multiple witnesses to huge black ship, which hovers over basketball court. Within 30' of ground. Seen again 21JN & 10JL95.	07/12/1995
Open	04/19/1995 21:45	Richmond	VA	USA		Family & 12 athletes witness huge, black disc w/ dome in center. Very close. Returns on second occasion.	07/12/1995
Open	07/28/1995 23:10	Clarksville	VA	USA		Woman repts. sighting disc-shaped obj. w/ flashing red & green lights. Stationary. (Possible twinkling stars?)	07/31/1995
Open	08/20/1995 13:45	Colonial Beach	VA	USA		Man and fiancee' witness cigar shaped craft that disappears suddenly.	08/22/1995
Open	09/03/1995 22:30	Virginia Beach	VA	USA		Man & wife witness twinkling light to east. It "drifted left, moved, then disappeared." (Possible star?)	09/05/1995
Open	09/22/1995 00:00	Virginia Beach	VA	USA		Man repts. object flew overhead, giving off "gold specks." Several neighbors witnessed event, several alarmed by it.	09/22/1995
Open	11/19/1995 23:06	Virginia Beach	VA	USA		Mother heard high-pitch whine pass over house. Daughter witnessed large circular craft w/ multiple circular whitish, yellow lights.	11/19/1995
Open	01/14/1996 17:00	Chesterfield	VA	USA			01/14/1996
Open	12/24/1995 23:30	Christiansburg	VA	USA	Triangle	4 adults see 2 conventional mil. aircraft "pursuing" a 3rd "triangular craft w/ tiny red lights." 4th a/c approaches at high speed.	02/26/1996
Open	04/23/1996 17:10	Richmond	VA	USA		Woman, other commuters on Ridgefield Rd. witness bright, shiny, chrome-colored obj. hovering below overcast. "Just above trees."	04/23/1996
Open	05/18/1996 22:30	Hampton	VA	USA		Man sees "shooting star" streak across W to E, turn down toward earth, then streak back W. Color and size of star.	05/19/1996
Open	03/06/1997 22:00	Virginia Beach	VA	USA	Light	I was laying in my bed watching tv with the windows open and I saw this Bright yellow light fly across the sky then all of a suden It s	03/17/1997
Open	03/15/1997 23:55	Oakton	VA	USA	Chevron	I saw two large bright round white lights moving forward together but keeping the same distance apart. Then the two lights changed dir	03/18/1997
Open	03/24/1997 23:40	Manassas	VA	USA	Formation	Seen 4 lights, high speed, very high altitudein the Manassas, VA area.	03/23/1997
Open	03/10/1997 12:30	Virginia Beach	VA	USA	Sphere	White, spherical object moving in a NW trajectory, silent, moving extremely fast.	05/10/1997
Open	07/15/1974 20:00	Hampton (Virgina Beach amusment park)	VA	USA	Light	Bright ball.Moved from N to S. Reported next day up and down the Eastern seaboard.	07/22/1997
Open	07/23/1997 20:00	Warrenton	VA	USA	Triangle	triangular metalic object high in the sky moving at an extreme high rate of speed.changed direction 3 times at sharp angles.	10/05/1997
Open	10/04/1997 18:00	Warrenton	VA	USA	Light	Bright star like object going from south to north at extreme high rate of speed.	10/05/1997
Open	10/01/1997 21:55	Martinsville	VA	USA	Other	Yellow/Orange lighted object moving from NE to SW. Very bright toy top shape with no sound. About the size of a penny held at arm reach	10/14/1997
Open	07/01/1976 22:00	Ft. Belvoir	VA	USA	Formation	Saw three lights in a triangular shape flying from the east to west. It moved as one unit passing by within moments. A plane was in t	10/16/1997
Open	07/08/1981 20:00	Christiansburg	VA	USA	Light	Observed light only, first slowly moving, appeared to be small private plane.Then stationary, moved in circle while changing colors ( c	10/22/1997
Open	10/24/1997 00:00	Norfolk	VA	USA	circle	Green, luminous round object that had a dark vertical line (or absense of light)appeared suddenly descended and disappeared.	10/23/1997
Open	10/15/1997 18:40	Abingdon	VA	USA	Light	Bristol Herald Courier run on Thursday (10-16-97) the following day "Unusual lights in sky over Mountain Empire generate speculation".	12/02/1997
Open	12/21/1997 05:25	Harrisonburg	VA	USA	Light	five stationary lights in a row in the southeastern sky	12/22/1997
Open	12/31/1997 20:30	Manassas	VA	USA	Formation	observed a formation of approx fifty craft in upper atmosphere traverse night sky. formation was traversing sky fromwest to east and h	01/01/1998
Open	06/15/1992 22:00	Montvale	VA	USA	Sphere	amber,orange ufo spotted in bedford county,virginia near "closed" airforce base.	01/07/1998
Open	02/19/1998 00:01	Amherst (near High Peak)	VA	USA	Triangle	I woke up, do to the moonlight shining in my eyes. And I looked out the window and saw a kind of yellow ball movi	02/19/1998
Open	12/26/1997 22:30	Dale City (Interstate 95)	VA	USA	Triangle	3, medium blue, grapefruit-sized lights in a triangular formation in the sky. It moved rapidly a short distance and then stopped in th	02/19/1998
Open	02/19/1998 19:05	Fairfax	VA	USA	Triangle	In the northern sky i saw 3 white lights (small, as in the average aircraft seen at night) with a red, flashing light between the two c	02/19/1998
Open	03/05/1998 19:00	Norfolk	VA	USA	Fireball	Intensely bright green fireball almost the diameter of the moon shot across the sky. Long bright green trail. Visible for 3 seconds o	03/09/1998
Open	05/05/1990 21:40	Arlington	VA	USA	Chevron	Object sighted in bi-noc while stargazing. Object in sight for approx 2.5 3.0 sec due to other object in sight (tree) object moved fa	03/29/1998
Open	04/03/1998 18:45	Fairfax (GMU campus)	VA	USA	Oval	Observed bright object moving FAST. Many others witnessed the event on George Mason University campus while we were waiting to enter t	04/04/1998
Open	04/14/1998 13:19	Vienna	VA	USA	Changing	This object hovered a few hundred feet above the Tysons Marriot for over 5 min. It seemed to have erratic movements (up & down)	04/19/1998
Open	04/03/1998 18:42	Fredericksburg	VA	USA	Egg	a grey egg shaped heading north w/ green and blue propelation colors behind it moving about mach 3 at about 900 ft up	04/24/1998
Open	04/30/1998 17:45	Danville	VA	USA	Teardrop	Observed small upsidedown curved black teardrop with blue floresent crown hovering over highway 86 Danville.	05/02/1998
Open	04/15/1998 17:44	Roanoke	VA	USA	Fireball	IT WAS A BRIGHT BALL OF LIGHT OVER THE BLUE RIDGE MOUTAINS.IT MOVED TO THE LEFT MOVED TO THE RIGHT THEN WENT SOUTH WEST THEN WITHIN ABL	06/03/1998
Open	08/21/1998 03:00	Woodbridge	VA	USA	Triangle	Went out to see the ring around the moon,when I saw strange light in the sky. As it got closer noticed it was a triangular craft with a	09/06/1998
Open	09/23/1998 09:30	Bedford	VA	USA	Disk	silver disk approx size of moon with 2 black rings traveling east to west	09/25/1998
Open	06/23/1998 20:58	Richmond	VA	USA	Unknown	At about 9:58 last night, I was letting my dogs out. I then saw 5 craft in what was almost a "W" formation. I was confused. I went back	06/24/1998
Open	06/15/1976 03:00	Woodberry Forest Preparatory School, VA	VA	USA	Light	Seen out window: Silent light, 6-8 inches in diameter at arm's length, moved across sky, illuminating winter tree leaves in front of i	10/15/1998
Open	10/15/1998 19:48	Tyson's Corner	VA	USA	Fireball	Very large and bright blue-green fireball witnessed while driving North-bound on I-495 (The Beltway).	10/16/1998
Open	06/30/1965 20:00	Chesapeake (Norfork area)	VA	USA	Egg	lookng out bedroom window saw object going by aprox distance 1500ft away and about1000ft high speed about 400-600mph. whole object woul	10/28/1998
Open	10/19/1998 18:00	Virginia Beach	VA	USA	Fireball	2 fireballs flying north to southwest about the speed of jetliner.	11/01/1998
Open	06/30/1993 21:00	Richlands (4 mi. south of, Short Mountain,Tazewell Co.)	VA	USA	Light	Wife & I observed light shining intrees on top of mtn., near same area where 3 people from had died about 10 years prior in airplane c	11/02/1998
Open	11/18/1998 01:40	New Kent	VA	USA	Triangle	3 white lights forming black triangle. Slowly moved below treeline.	11/19/1998
Open	05/27/1997 15:30	Arlington	VA	USA	Disk	As I was on my way home, I glanced to the right and saw 2 disk-shaped objects high in the sky. They seemed to be moving VERY fast. Afte	12/07/1998
Open	12/01/1998 17:50	Culpeper	VA	USA	Oval	While on patrol. Noticed an eye ball shaped object. that was very bright in the sky.	12/04/1998
Open	12/06/1998 20:30	Culpeper County (location unspecified)	VA	USA	Circle	See Full description ((Police officer reports sighting of a "bright ball of light."))	12/07/1998
Open	08/15/1983 21:00	Quinton	VA	USA	Other	Strange winged craft that shown a very bright light on us.	12/11/1998
Open	02/11/1979 14:00	Louden County	VA	USA	Disk	While driving saw a disc shaped object very briefly. My girlfriend wgo was with me also saw it. The interesting thing about is that we	12/13/1998
Open	12/24/1998 19:00	Fairfax	VA	USA	Unknown	I was ouyside my cousin's home smoking a cig. before getting ready to go to work at Dulles airport as a aviation mechanic. I was watchi	12/28/1998
Open	01/10/1999 19:04	Tyson's Corner	VA	USA	Circle	Bright green circularly shaped light moved downward and easterly through elevation angles from 30 degrees to 10 degrees and 20 degrees	01/11/1999
Open	11/15/1998 01:30	Windsor	VA	USA	Light	Four lights passed over at low altitude{less than 1000ft}and were silent,moving in a staight line as if one object.conditions were clea	01/25/1999
Open	01/23/1999 21:00	Richmond	VA	USA	Chevron	I was driving west on Grove Ave.in town,fog+low clouds above me.Suddenly+silently a triangular brightly lit craft passed over me at app	01/28/1999
Open	02/21/1998 17:50	Tappahannock	VA	USA	Circle	Flying SW to E in East Sky, about Mach 15-20, est. alt. 5000' Angle of sun revealed intobe lt.grey w/black bottom. Shapedlike pietin	01/29/1999
Open	06/22/1993 14:00	Colonial Beach	VA	USA	Cylinder	Disapeering flying object	02/01/1999
Open	04/15/1990 01:30	Charlottesville	VA	USA	Other	I have spoken of this to my friends, but have never wanted to explain this event to any organization such as yours for, I guess fear of	02/17/1999
Open	02/19/1999 19:30	Richmond	VA	USA	Disk	Aircraft-size disk hovering in sky soundlessly with blue lights on its perimeter From - Thu Feb 18 10:01:52 1999 Received: from www.nwl	02/19/1999
Open	04/20/1975 17:00	Mount Vernon	VA	USA	Oval	I was about 12 yrs old and saw this oval object hovering, silently, over my home, near Ft. Belvior, VA. It had circles around its diame	02/23/1999
Open	03/23/1999 19:22	Chesapeake	VA	USA	Oval	It was about the size of a mid-sized car. Very Bright yellowish orange. It moved parallel to the ground.	03/23/1999
Open	03/29/1999 22:00	Norfolk	VA	USA	Unknown	GREEN GLOWING LIGHT IN THE SKY 1/2 MOON SHAPE SEEING IN TWO DIFFRENT LOCATIONS AT THE SAME TIME, ABOUT 20 MILES APART - TODAY 4/1/99 WA	04/01/1999
Open	07/07/1970 01:00	McLean	VA	USA	Other	My friend Barbara was spending the night with me. Around 1a.m. we noticed the street light from outside the east window was actually co	04/15/1999
Open	04/14/1999 20:30	Oakton	VA	USA	Fireball	Something burst out of the sky and plummeted downward. It had a green glow like fire and no tail of light visible. It then disappeare	04/14/1999
Open	03/21/1999 22:00	Bristol	VA	USA	Disk	My name is ((deleted)) and i was driving down the street. A flash of light with a flying saucer suddenly appeared it swayed back and	04/20/1999
Open	07/19/1991 21:30	Virginia Beach	VA	USA	Triangle	dark triangular craft, white lights on corners, red light center underneath followed by a smaller, disk shaped craft, white lights arou	04/26/1999
Open	05/04/1999 17:45	Richmond	VA	USA	Disk	Two craft flew slowly parallel for two minutes, then one stayed the course,the other veered off, sunlight gleaming off it`s side. Seeme	05/04/1999
Open	08/20/1998 23:30	Centreville	VA	USA	Sphere	It was short and brief..it was a sphere I saw and what got me the most was the color...it was like an electric blue colored sphere. The	01/06/1999
Open	08/20/1968 03:30	Norfolk Naval Operation Base	VA	USA	Circle	While relieving and sailor at 3:30 am. We were looking at a full moon. We noticed this very bright star that appeared to be aout 6" fro	06/11/1999
Open	06/23/1999 22:30	Virginia Beach	VA	USA	Light	very bright flash of lights chaging positons but staying in a general area. but it was very very high in the sky might have been 3 or 4	06/24/1999
Open	06/27/1999 23:25	Fort Defiance	VA	USA	Other	Using 10" dobsonian telescope at the moon I saw a black object zoom across.	06/27/1999
Open	05/15/1984 23:00	Winchester	VA	USA	Circle	I spent many hours looking at stars as preparation for navigation with a sailboat using a sextant	06/27/1999
Open	07/04/1999 23:59	Wachapreague	VA	USA	Cigar	Orange cigar shaped light about one thousand feet in the sky. Disappeared and then came returned about five minutes later.	07/04/1999
Open	07/04/1999 23:45	Lovingston (East of)	VA	USA	Unknown	Between 23:30 and 24:00 a vapor trail	07/07/1999
Open	06/30/1994 00:00	Spotsylvania	VA	USA	Disk	Please take this very serious. I have witnessed numorous UFO's, during the day only. Please I will take a lie detector, or any other	07/09/1999
Open	07/08/1999 22:35	Colonial Heights	VA	USA	Light	a round light started glowing as if there was a fog or cloud in front of it then it got brighter moved slowly to the the right stoppin	07/09/1999
Open	06/10/1999 23:30	Shenandoah County (over the town of)	VA	USA	Sphere	I was looking at the stars as it was a very clear night. I saw what I thought was a star that started to move. As I watched it go acros	07/09/1999
Open	07/05/1999 00:15	Virginia Beach	VA	USA	Light	It looked like a thick glowing trail of an airplane. It took hard right angle turns. It was enormous and miles high in the sky.	07/10/1999
Open	07/11/1999 22:00	Manassas	VA	USA	Sphere	i witnessed a bright spherical object that hovered at a low alt. and moved very slowly. the object dissapeared and reapearred a moment	07/13/1999
Open	06/22/1999 22:33	Reston	VA	USA	Sphere	large, spherical, very bright object, flew very fast from south to north, disappeared in an instant.	07/25/1999
Open	07/11/1999 17:30	Baileys Cross Roads (just outside Wash DC)	VA	USA	Oval	sighting of 4 oval objects that did not look like balloons or aircraft	08/01/1999
Open	08/01/1999 03:45	Rocky Mount (4mi s.e. of)	VA	USA	Disk	a giant craft well over 100' in diameter slightly tilted down toward its direction of travel aproximately 1 mile or so directly east of	07/27/1999
Open	07/27/1999 19:00	Fort A.P. Hill/ Bowling Green	VA	USA	Oval	While Crossing a major 4 lane High way. I watched A bright oval, cross the sky and fade away.	07/29/1999
Open	01/01/1997 00:00	Chilhowie	VA	USA	Cross	4 craft slowly came together from four directions (North, South, East, West) They stayed together for 2-3 minutes(shot off in different	08/05/1999
Open	08/13/1999 00:00	Winchester	VA	USA	Light	i tracked 2 objects flying high from n.w to s.e., when the lead object emmited a brillient light, much brighter than an airplane strobe	08/14/1999
Open	06/06/1999 22:00	Virginia (while driving on I-95; 2 hrs S of Wash., D.C.)	VA	USA	Cigar	cigar-shaped whitish object, hovering (possibly moving slightly, north to south)	08/22/1999
Open	06/15/1975 22:00	Richmond	VA	USA	Disk	Was heading Southbound on Interstate as a passenger in back of car, saw object behind us and it was making manuevers that no known airc	09/01/1999
Open	09/10/1999 21:41	Arlington	VA	USA	Other	Sitting on couch watching TV and saw out my window a large 'falling star' entering from the west and falling earthward.	09/10/1999
Open	09/17/1999 23:55	Virginia Beach	VA	USA	Fireball	a ball of light shot over my head.	09/18/1999
Open	09/22/1999 00:20	Manassas	VA	USA	Circle	sitting outside, saw bright light in sky, traveling at a high speed.	09/26/1999
Open	10/05/1999 21:00	Chesapeake	VA	USA	Other	I was doing some observations for my astronomy class tonight and I saw something very strange. I was looking west about forty five deg	10/05/1999
Link	Occurred	City	State	Country	Shape	Summary	Reported	Media	Explanation