Sphere over Burke, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Bright orange spheres hovering and moving.
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 2012-12-22 → 2013-01-08
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November 13, 2020 · 5:50 PM · LIGHT
Burke, VA
2 lights following each other at high speed. No blinking lights and no engine noise. They kept the same distance apart and went across the entire horizon in about 2 minutes in a straight line. Unable to discern the shapes, they just appeared as 2 single dots of light, similar to Mars which is our sky tonight.
March 7, 2016 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Burke, VA
((ADDENDUM FROM ANOTHER ANONYMOUS SOURCE, POSSIBLY THE PARTY WHO SUBMITTED THE ORIGINAL REPORT.)) Not a hoax at all I have seen the same object two times very close to the target in Burke. Coming home from the twinbrook shopping center. Three bright lights in the formation of a triangle. this object was silent, black triangular objects hovering slowly cruising at low altitudes over the tree line. Sighting was at night. These objects had pulsing white lights that appear at each corner of the triangle. ((END ADDENDUM)) Source of report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We suspect that the report may be an attempt at hoaxing our Center. PD
July 31, 2015 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Burke, VA
I watched for 2 mins. It hovered over Lake Royal, then slowly move to the N and disappeared over the trees. My heart is still racing.
February 21, 2015 · 6:25 PM · FLASH
Burke, VA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 29, 2014 · 11:00 AM · CIGAR
Burke, VA
On Saturday, November 29, 2014, at approximately 11AM (est), while driving NW on Lee Chapel Rd in Burke, VA, I saw what looked like a Learjet flying ahead of me appearing from the right at a very fast speed heading to my left. With tall trees on both sides of the street along my pathway, I had a clear view for about 3 to 5 seconds. What made this unusual were a couple of things: 1) The object was flying very low and going down in what I would describe as about 10,000 feet when first coming into view from the right and at about 7,500 feet when going out of view to my left. 2) The nose of the object was at about a 170 degree angle up and the tail equally down as it went by, descending. 3) I immediately rolled down my window and did not hear a thing. I drove slowly half expecting to hear an explosion but heard nothing. As I continued on the road I looked at other drivers to see if anyone else was acting like they saw what I saw. I started to wonder if perhaps it may have been a radio controlled kit, but the field of vision would have made the object out of visible range from any natural place to fly one (residential area, crossing fairly busy road). I turned on my radio to the local all news station expecting another 9-11 or plane crash ‘happening now’ breaking story but heard nothing. I Googled when I got home to see if anyone else posted about it but found nothing. After thinking about it some more an hour or so later, I decided it was way to obvious that I saw something out of the ordinary and decided to check online for where to report it. This lead me to the National UFO Reporting website. I am also sending an illustration I am putting together to clearly visualize what I saw.
July 4, 2014 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Burke, VA
We were on our back deck night of July 4, 2014, when I noticed a strange round red light in the sky. It made no noise and did not blink like helicopters or airplanes. It was a constant light moving at a casual pace across the night sky. Time was about 9:10 or 9:15 PM. There were 2 other people with me and I pointed it out to them. It was moving from North to South. Then 2 more of these "orbs" appeared. Several more after that ... they were following each other. And then 3 or 4 more appeared. I believe I saw a total of 8 to 10 of them.