Other over Midlothian, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On the evening of January 8th, 2002 my girlfriend and I were coming back from my brothers house that lives in Mosely, Va. ( approximate
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2002-01-05 → 2002-01-22
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March 22, 2023 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Midlothian, VA
This object has been in the sky in approximately the same area for over 30 minutes. Numerous family members have witnessed it bouncing if you will like a ping-pong ball back-and-forth left to right. We’ve seen planes flying above it with its beacon lights flashing. We have seen oh, it just disappeared. It just moved. We have seen it through binoculars. It looks like a parasail with lots of bright lights.. . The lights have appears to rotate. Can it be a drone ? At night ??
September 24, 2022 · 7:39 PM · UNKNOWN
Midlothian, VA
I finished playing fetch with my dog on the field at the very back of the park. By this time no one else was there. I put my dog in the back and heard animals in the woods going crazy. This made me nervous since I was there alone. I glanced back at the field and the sky and saw nothing. I was looking for animals and at the bats flying around making noise. I opened the front passenger door to fill my dogs water bowl. I closed his door in case something came out of the woods even though I hadn’t buckled him in yet. While drinking water I looked up and saw it. Incredibly bright lights that could easily light up the woods even with being so far away. The lights shifted twice, but always stayed behind pointing backward of the direction the craft moved. At times if slowed down almost to a stop. Then it would continue moving forward. I grabbed my phone and started recording. As line of sight appeared to become covered by trees, I hopped in the car. I could still see it while traveling to the front parking lot of the park. I pulled over while leaning forward and staring up. It was still there. I got out and grabbed my phone again. When I looked up as soon as hopping up it was gone. It was about 15 seconds from the back lot to the front. 2 other friends now say they saw it. One from DC and one from California.
February 3, 2022 · 6:10 PM · CIRCLE
Midlothian, VA
I was outside leaving my place of work. Off to the left in the sky I saw a very bright white light surrounded by a misty fog. At first I thought it was a shooting star but it was far brighter. It moved rapidly straight down toward earth, then stopped dead for a split second and shot straight back up into the sky and went behind clouds. I did not hear any kind of engine sound. I watched for a little while longer but did not see anything else.
September 4, 2021 · 9:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Midlothian, VA
My wife and I were fishing on a dock at Swift Creek Reservoir around 9:00 on Saturday 9/4/2021. We were looking up at the stars trying to identify which were planets and which were stars. I noticed a very small, faint object which appeared to be at a very high altitude moving at what looked to me as a very fast speed. I thought that maybe my eyes hadn’t adjusted to the darkness and maybe the object was a glare of some sort in my vision from looking up for so long. I looked away from the object and focused on a star that was nearby. The object kept going and I was able to clearly follow it across the sky (west to east). I yelled at my wife “Do you see that? She came over and could see it immediately. As we followed it, it seemed to start to “wobble”. Then a second object appeared next to the original one. They maintained the same path of flight but looked as if they were spinning around each other. The two began to change course and head north. This is when t! hey began to drift apart at the same rate of speed almost mirroring each other. As they got further away they both appeared to “wobble” again and they just flew away until we could no longer see them .
November 12, 2019 · 6:30 PM · OTHER
Midlothian, VA
Approximately 10,000 to 20,000 feet above ground I saw a straight-line, 300 meter long, flashing light. there was no noise. no other aircraft in that vicinity. no clouds. the line of lights flashed in unison and were like dashes that you see on a dashed line on paper. object was moving approximately 150-200mph. I turned my back and ran to get my son to show him and when I turned around it was gone. no power lines near. no plausible explanation.
July 28, 2019 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Midlothian, VA
4 red balls of light, followed by a helicopter. Heading northeast. Moving fast, balls of light were scattered but close together. The helicopter was close behind them.