Light over Winchester, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Addendum: Article in Washington Post (7-5-18) might explain orange lights in sky on night of 7-4-18 east of Winchester, VA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-isnt-prepared-for-the-growing-threat-of-drones/2018/07/04/30cc2a76-7eef-11e8-b9f0-61b08cdd0ea1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6713c1321f74
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #142080). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-07-01 → 2018-07-18
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March 3, 2023 · 6:31 PM · DISK
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I am simply showing this photo. Hoping it can be explained. I can’t explain it.
February 15, 2022 · 6:15 AM · LIGHT
Winchester, VA
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July 4, 2018 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Winchester, VA
At first, thought it might be 4th of July fireworks, but 3 orange non-blinking lights were holding a relative pattern in the sky (undetermined altitude, but very far away and probably very high. The sighting was East of the Winchester City (VA) Eventually there were only two orange lights - thought was possible cloud cover (?) We spoke via telephone with the witness, and we found him to be exceptionally eloquent, and serious-minded. He is a professional instructor. PD
March 6, 2018 · 2:34 AM · TRIANGLE
Winchester, VA
there was a bright shining light, i looked out my window and saw around 20 triangle shaped objects in the sky. They had red lights on all three on the corners except for one craft witch had green lights. I went to take a photo and they didn't appear threw my camera lens. about 30 minutes in all you heard was a high pitch noise then a gigantic triangle with blue lights appeared then all the ships including the blue lighted one disappeared. then reappeared for a few seconds disappeared leaving a blue trail behind. I think the object might have landed. then took off and left. We are not convinced that this report is a serious-minded submission. Possible hoax, we suspect. PD
March 17, 2016 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Winchester, VA
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May 1, 2015 · 8:45 PM · CHANGING
Winchester, VA
One sphere, circled with bright white lights, arrives about 20:45 in W sky, parks, in same area each evening lower than a landing pattern airplane. It spins and at times appears as an oval. Background is black. About 22:00 the object quickly departs site to the NW. Second sphere with same description is located very high in the west. As first sphere departs, second moves quickly to the first position. About midnite or later, third sphere appears from very high position in the east to the former position of second sphere. As second quickly moves to the NW, the third sphere replaces the same lower position as one and two held. Sometime after 1:00 am the third moves quickly to the N. Every clear evening, we have witnessed the same patter since about the end of April. This report originally was posted with a flawed date. We have corrected the date, to the best of our ability. Witness indicates a date of "May 2015." PD