Light over Luray, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On 10/21/23 at appx 10:30 pm my husband and I saw these lights behind a cloud above our house, once again. It looks like 2 circular lights that appear behind the clouds then smaller white lights shoot out of it. See attached video. We have been seeing this pretty frequently. Approximate location 38.6681218, -78.4308007 [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Possible]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #179016). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-10-18 → 2023-11-04
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October 6, 2023 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Luray, VA
On 10/6/23 looking west 2 large white lights were stationary behind a cloud. Lights were not consistently on. It would light up and pulsate then other lights would shoot out very fast in different directions. About 20 mins later those shooting lights came back from the direction they left and went into the large white lights. There wasn't any sound and the speed was many many times faster than a jet. Then on 10/8/23 the same 2 large lights were seen in appx the same area, but this time there were small lights that came out and went back. There wasn't a beam of light like it would be if it were coming from the ground. This was cloudy or foggy underneath, like it was emitting through the clouds, similar to how a jet would look. I wasn't able to record on the first night. The second night I caught part of the large lights (which look blue in the video) and the small lights. *Videos are cut to the time frame with objects*
October 2, 2023 · 12:48 AM · LIGHT
Luray, VA
As I was sitting in my living room on my couch, I looked out of my front window which faces Northeast, and viewed two faint balls of white light that were steadily moving North up the Shenandoah Valley. When I first noticed these two lights, they were above the horizon to the immediate right of the mountaintop “Kennedy’s Peak” of the George Washington National Forest. After bringing the lights to the attention of my younger brother, we both ran over to the window and opened it it gain a better view of the lights. These lights appeared to be maintaining a constant altitude of approximately 30,000 feet AGL and traveling faster than a regular passenger aircraft- if they were at the range they appeared to be they could have been traveling at more than 800 knots. These lights were rather faint, and they maintained perfect separation of about a thumbnail on an extended arm throughout the entire duration of the sighting which lasted about ten seconds total. By the time I found a pair of binoculars to get a better view of them, the right-hand light began to fade and was quickly joined by the left-hand light before totally fading into the darkness. We watched the sky for about five minutes afterward and saw nothing out of the ordinary. FlightAware.com and FlightRadar24.com had no aircraft in the area at the time. No satellite trackers had anything in the area either. I do not believe these were Starlink satellites- I have seen them several times before, however, I have never seen just a pair traveling perfectly along the horizon. Perhaps military jets on a training exercise? Both me and my brother are lifelong aviation enthusiasts with a father who is a private pilot. I've never seen anything quite like this before.
December 16, 2018 · 5:30 PM · FLASH
Luray, VA
There was 3 consecutive flashes over the sky, almost like it was building up and the last one was almost like day time.
October 2, 2014 · 7:20 PM · OTHER
Luray, VA
I was out with my dogs in the yard, it was almost dark. There are few people or lights in our area of the county. When I turned around I saw two very distinct bright lights in the sky at any extremely high speed. They disappeared in the horizon in a few seconds. These lights were sort of diamond shaped, close together, and very bright, almost neon. We see planes in the sky in this area all the time, both big and small. This was not like anything I have ever seen before. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2014 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
Luray, VA
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May 18, 2013 · 1:00 AM · CIRCLE
Luray, VA
Two flashes of light to brighten the sky and a big green round flying object to appear to be falling for seconds then vanishes.