Cylinder over Gainesville, VA
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The report, as filed
Large Red Glowing Orb Seen Landing In Virginia
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 2009-06-25 → 2009-07-12
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June 5, 2023 · 2:43 PM · DIAMOND
Gainesville, VA
Watched the diamond object float or hover, tracking toward the East (toward Washington DC). Object was redirected back to the South East towards Manassas, VA. Object flashed or reflected the sun randomly (but very bright like a camera flash). I was able to see it through my polarized glasses, but could not capture the object on film using a Samsung Ultra do to the random pattern. A flight at about 30-60,000 feet flew over approximately 10 minutes later on the exit path of the object. A military helicopter flew toward Dulles airport in the same area from the West (e.g., I-81 corridor) a few minutes after witnessing the plane. I could not validate the flight path of the plane or military helicopter. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
September 2, 2016 · 11:30 AM · SPHERE
Gainesville, VA
The sun had a ring around it. It was interesting so I took 2 pictures of it seconds apart. As I look at the pictures,I notice a dot inside the halo of the sun. As I zoom in, the dot appears to be sphere like with glowing white orbs. I look at the other photo and the object has changed position, with its own halo, and the orb pattern has changed. I was using a camera phone Samsung Galaxy S5.
February 6, 2016 · 8:40 PM · LIGHT
Gainesville, VA
I was walking the dog last night on the golf course and around 8:40pm noticed an orange light in the sky moving SW to NE. Because I was on the golf course, I had a good unobstructed view from horizon to horizon. I tried, but couldn't hear any sound from it. It had no green and red aircraft lights and no flashing lights, only an orange slightly pulsating light. It seemed very high in the sky and seemed to vanish into the horizon. It took about a minute for it to travel from one horizon to the other. I saw three other such lights, ending at about 9:10pm, about equally spaced in time. My best guess is that they were some sort of rocket (?), but it seemed to move too slowly. And it seemed too fast to be an air-breather. Someone suggested it might be a high altitude weather balloon.
December 3, 2015 · 5:40 PM · CIRCLE
Gainesville, VA
I was out with a few friends in two different cars. We were going to another mutual friends house for a good time. our two cars pulled into our local safeway grocery store to grab some drinks. I myself walked in as did my friend who was driving me, as we were walking back to the car we realized our other friends in their car had already gone to the house. As we were pulling out of the parking lot i was looking toward the sky as i do often and i see a very bright light moving very fast then slowed and sped back up. It stayed in a straight path type direction meaning it did not change direction, for a split second i thought it was a shooting star but how it slowed and sped up again baffled me. I wasn't sure what i had just seen but i knew it was not normal. We arrive at our friends house who lives just a mile or so from the store as soon as we walk in his door our other friends were excited and asked is we saw that U.F.O.? We discussed what it could of been we mentioned a satellite, or a missile. None of them seemed logical tho it was very, very bright and how it slowed itself momentarily before zooming off again. I posted on Facebook about it and to my surprise nobody else seems to see it, i was also surprised to not see a post on here. I however thought it was worth reporting, it was very exciting to witness!
December 24, 2010 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Gainesville, VA
16 orange "fireballs" of light seen on Christmas Eve, 2010.
July 24, 2010 · 2:00 AM · FIREBALL
Gainesville, VA
Saw an object in ithe Western sky flashing red and green lights with a bright white light as well which moved in irratic directions