Virginia UFO Sightings in 2009

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Red/white lights on rotating box hovering, changed to green/blue lights as well when comes close and then flys away at surprising speed Last night, as I tried to fall asleep in my sunroom I saw wat I thought to be a plane in front of me in the sky till I realized it was moving exceptionally slow. This box made an odd path around my house with white/red rotating lights. After a couple minutes it went from appearing very far away to HOVERING RIGHT ABOVE MY NEIGHBORS TREELINE (where I initially thought it was some sort of weather balloon but there was NO visible balloon over the box) where I got an exceptional view and I now regret not searching for my camera.

The lights now included green an blue and rotated slowing just hovering not too distantly away. Next thing I knew the lights were flashing or blinking? and the object was suddenly far away and high and the sky where I could only make out red/white lights again. Please let me know if anyone else has seen this on that night in Fairfax Virginia cause it was for sure not Santa!.

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Unpatterned group of 6-8 objects travelling NE to SW at high speed and high altitude. Saw what I thought was a passenger jet flying from northeast to southwest. Then realized there was another object just behind and to its right.

As I focused, I realized there were 6-8 objects, all flying at same speed and altitude, in no particular pattern. Thought the first one was a passenger jet because it appeared to be high up and moving fast. But commercial airliners do not travel that close together and do not, at cruising altitude, appear from the ground to travel as fast as those objects passed over my house.

There was no sound, no exhaust trail. Objects appeared to be silver metallic and/or reflecting the sun's light. Could not tell their shape due to sun's brightness/reflection and distance.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Bright White Light in Partlow Sky !!!!! I was riding my bike down the road and was looking in the sky at the stars. Next thing I know I saw a shiny bright white circle of light. I thought it was a helocopter spot light but it wasn't.

I stopped and looked at it for 10 mins. It stayed in one spot, moving flat across the sky really slowly. I continued to ride my bike down the road and it was just hovering in one spot.

I lost it above the tree line. I kept riding and I saw it again when the trees got smaller. I got to my road and next thing you know it dissapeared.

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Second appearence of oval objects to be seen in the Chatham Va. area This is my second report of the oval shaped u.f.

o. objects. The first sighting was over the Dan Rivr Mills complex.

This is the second sighting of these simular shaped objects.My son and i sometimes ride out of Danville about 20 miles to the dryfork area near chatham va. We have family there who has one of the largest areas of untouched forested land, the largest wooded area on the map.

We were in that location in a secluded area in a second cleared field for farming tobbacco and wheat.We some times go there at night to look up at the stars and have father son talks and to just enjoy the silence and sounds of nature.While we were sitting there in my pickup truck i saw another oval shaped object appear in the sky above the tree top area in the sky, this object immediately streaked accross the sky in a straight line and vanished.

My son was not looking in the direction i was at that moment and he missed seeing this object,i immediately told him about it and i had t! old him about the object i saw over Dan River Mills the week before.About 2 minutes later another object of the same shape,color,and appearence suddenly appeared in the exact same location as the first one. This time my son and i both were looking right at this object, and this object also took off with enormous speed and streaked accross the night sky.

My son had never seen anything like this before and became very frightened to the point of panic and he wanted to leave the area.I calmed him down by talking to him and proceeded to stay there about another 30 minutes and then we left.These objects were the same shape,color,and size as the one i saw over the mill.

((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)).

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I saw a v shaped ,silent object moving very quicky in the night sky. I was taking my dog, Sparky, out for a walk at approx. 17:50 hrs on 12/10/09 in the back common area of my townhouse complex.

It was dark at that time, and as I was passing through the opening of two end units, I heard a power hand saw being used by a resident on his rear deck of the townhouses backing up to the drainage ditch which I was approaching from the opposite side. The sound stopped and I saw him walk back inside his house as I reached the spot where I let my dog loose to run and fetch the ball (I know its dark, but I throw it to a spot across the ditch, just like I have done hundreds of times before). After I threw the ball, I have about 40 seconds before she returns with it, I looked up in the sky just to see the stars on this clear and crisp evening.

Panning the sky to the north, I saw what at first looked like a tighter that usual grouping of faint stars, a shallow V of an angle approx. 135 degrees to the backside of the V. The V shape wasn’t a group of stars, because it was moving from the north to the south.

There were 5-6 dimmer than a star lights on each arm of the V and a gap of no lights to the front of the V. The dark frontal gap was approx one-seventh the size of the V. I spotted it approx 30 degrees from vertical where I was standing and tracked it moving south for only 5-6 seconds before it went dim.

It went dim before it was obscured by the height of the roofs of the townhouses across the ditch. Total view angle was approx 90-100 degrees. The height was hard to determine as I had seen nothing like it before to compare the size, although planes come from various directions regularly coming of going to Dulles or Reagan airport.

The speed seemed very fast even if it was low, but in the relative quiet moment of the evening as it was, I heard not a whisper of sound before, during or after the craft passed overhead. It may have been higher than I thought but the speed would have been even faster to move across that span of sky.

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I was walking outside of my house, when I was looking up to see moon, when I saw a oval shaped thing about 10 times the size of a star. It was yellowish and odd looking. There was only one of them, but it was just hovering until about 30 seconds later it just disappeared.

I was stunned of what I saw, and continued looking around to see if I saw more. There was no sound at all during this process.

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Oval shaped object over Dan River Mills, Danville Va. 1st sighting I was at my office that is located on a hill top faceing the Dan River and the old Dan River Mills complex that is being torn down. I was looking out of the office window because i was waiting for a friend to show up at any moment, as i was looking in the direction of the mill, a huge oval shaped object appeared above the mill complex.

This object was very large and very bright whitish and somewhat gold in color.The entire object was illuminated. The object was completely still in its location.

This lasted for about a minute and then the object disapeared as if turning a light out.A few minutes later the object reappeared again in the same exact position and location.This time the object appearence lasted for about 2 to 3 minutes before disapearing.

This was not the last time i would see this object,the second appearence was with a wittness. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)).

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We encountered a large triangular shaped object with pulsating lights that hovered silently in the sky. My son and I were driving home last Friday night (12/4/09) about 5:45 pm when we saw a triangular object hovering in the sky. We pulled the car over and looked above our heads and saw the following: A large circular red light in the center of the bottom of the black, triangular shaped object.

There were three other red lights on the bottom tips of each angle of the triangle. There were also three pulsating yellow lights that were going clockwise at a medium pace. The UFO appeared to hover quietly then move straight up and down without sound.

We heard a low rumbling sound emit from the object while it moved very quickly in a diagonal manner, then shifted direction suddenly in different directions. The UFO then began hovering silently again. About 30 minutes later we heard and saw a low flying fighter jet flying just above the tree line, going towards the UFO sighting area.

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Three lights in formation over city and a decending fireball that burnt up before impact. Three objects North side of Harrisonburg traveling in diag.line with rapid flashing lights.

Then stop traveling and just maintained position. While in a hold position a fireball appeared and decended downwards and then went out before impact. The lights then resumed traveling in formation Northward over the mountions.

No sounds were heard and the sky was clear with a full moon.

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Witnessed multi-colored light hanging very low in the sky to the east. For 20 minutes we watched it change colors and intensity. Light was stationary as the stars behind it moved with the Earths rotation.

Satellite? ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Sirius. PD)).

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Saw what looked like a meteor (red/orange tail) the craft was over my car 3 blue “lights” on corners of ceaft * Sorry for the length - there is a lot to this event * I was driving home. I was the only car on the road and it was a cloudless night. I looked over to my left and saw what, I thought at the time, was a meteor falling to earth.

It was quite a ways away and it had a bright orange/red tail. I couldn’t keep track of it on the winding roads and houses/trees lining the road. I didn’t think much of it…until.

I turned right on the road that led to my neighborhood. The road winds in an S shape, then opens up to a fairly visible area. As soon as I made my way through that S, I looked to the left, and there was - about 2 stories high and 200 feet away - a dark silver UFO.

I froze. I had never believed in aliens or anything like that before. The craft moved over top of my car (about a single story above my car).

It was smooth, made no sound, was triangular, and had 3 blue “lights” at each point. I say “lights” because it seemed more like some form of reaction (chemical or otherwise) causing the blue light. My car is barely moving at this point (my foot is off the gas and my radio had shut off).

All I can think is “what the f**k, what the f**k, what the f**k” when suddenly, flashes of what my house looked liked came to my mind. The number of my house and where it was located came to my mind. As soon as I realized what I was thinking, I immediately was like "what are you doing? stop thinking that!" As soon as I forced myself to stop thinking that, the craft started to move forward and up away from my car, right in the direction of my neighborhood.

I knew they were going to my house. In my gut, I knew. I was so scared, I drove though the neighborhood, doing laps, about 4 times - trying to see where it went.

I didn't see it. I contemplated sleeping in my car, in the driveway - but chose against it out of fear of seeing aliens approach my car while half asleep. It took every ounce of courage to go into my house.

I knew they were in my house when I opened the door and the house was dark and silent. I had 3 dogs (one being a beagle, a basset hound, and a terrier). They always barked anytime the door was opened.

The house was SO dark and SO quiet and I ran down the hall into the bathroom. I locked the door and tried to calm down. I sat in my bathroom for about 20 minutes trying to figure out what to do.

Then, I was terrified to open the door. What if it was standing right in front of the door when I opened it? There wasn’t anything I could use as a weapon in the bathroom. I think I grabbed a brush, haha.

I then was like “ok, calm down….just brush your teeth, pee, then rush to your bedroom and lock the door”. Which I did.

I immediately turned the lights on and got in bed. I prayed to God to not let me remember anything. I was like “this is already too much for me to comprehend.

Please don’t let me remember if something happens. I can’t handle it. It will break me mentally.

If they are going to abduct me or whatever, please don’t let me remember it” and then I went to bed. There have been a few times since that experience where I lost time (once was with someone else - about 8 hours lost for us both) and some experiences where I have woken up with weird markings on my body, but no more UFO sightings. I also had what seems like a dream - I’m not sure - of a small, about 4 foot tall, being that had this kind of light/dirty brownish color skin (almost like a latte with a lot of cream and milk in it) and it had MASSIVE black eyes.

In the dream/fracture of memory I was running down the hallway in my house and ran into the room closest to the front door and went to slam it shut. This thing’s head was caught between the door and the doorframe. And it made this god awful sound (like gurgling kind of) and then I went to punch it and that’s all I remember After this experience, I spent about two years terrified to go to sleep.

I would literally stay awake until I physically couldn’t anymore. About 3 years later, I was diagnosed with PTSD by a therapist (who did not know about this experience). I am in a much better place now mentally than I was 10 years ago.

Even though I cannot remember what happened, I still feel this primal fear if I think about it too long. But, I’m not AS terrified as I was back then. I had a lot of things that I had to comprehend and come to peace with (like the fact that aliens are real).

But I don’t believe they are nefarious. My best guess is that I was “tagged” - like marine biologists do to whales or sharks - but, I don’t really know.

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Two white lights from afar then three white lights when underneath in triangular form. Was driving down a dark road heading to a families house for Thanksgiving. I was driving and noticed 2 white lights in a straight horizontal line off to the right and slightly ahead of me.

Not knowing the area, I assumed they were lights marking the top of a tall building. The area is surrounded by trees so I lost sight of teh lights and really thought nothing of them at the time. Approximately 1 minute later I saw the same too lights appear from behind the tree line on the right side of the road and slowly cross, disappearing behind the trees on the left side.

This was approximately 1/2 mile ahead of me. I again paid little attention to teh lights thinking they were just some aircraft. When we drove the the air craft crossed I then saw it again.

The difference being now we were slightly under the craft and there were 3 white lights of equal distance apart. I could not see the shape of the craft, just the lights. I did see dim multi colored lights between two of the lights slightly forward of them leading me to believe that that section of the craft was slightly rounded there.

I stopped my car and watched the craft for about 10-15 seconds. The whole time I was watching it did not move. I was just hovering about 75 yards of the ground and about 100 yards from me off to my back left side.

I turned away for a second and when I looked back the craft was begining to slowly move back across the road behind me. I lowered my window to watch it. I could not hear anything a very soft hum or whoosh sound.

My radio was on but not turned up loud as I had an infant and toddler in the car. I watched it until it disappeared back behind the tree line on my right side. I waited for a momement to see if it would reappear and it did not.

My wife also witnessed all of the events. She is from a less educated country than the US and does not fully understand the normal flight of aircraft so the idea of a fairly quite hoovering craft was not concerning to her.

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3 objects over Northern Virginia While taking my dog out, I was looking up at the sky to check for any meteors (Due to the shower that is happening tonight). While scanning the sky, I noticed moving East to West, three objects in a triangular pattern. These objects were circular in shape, had a halo like effect with the center of them as dark as the sky around them.

The skies this evening are clear. They moved a speed about as fast as a regional plane, but were completely silent. Within about a half a mile from my sight, they started to shift formation and kind of intertwined each other.

They may have gone about a mile West in my view, and then for a lack of better words, vanished. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Bright brilliant orange cylinder object about New Market Gap, with light flying from it and coming back to craft. The object was seen from the road near Luray Caverns airport. It was above a cloud over the New Market Gap.

It was shaped like a tube, it was bright shiny orange as if reflecting the sunset behind it. A light flew out of it and then came back to the craft. After about 5 minutes it disappeared.

I was alone so I don't know if anybody else saw it. Many years ago, in the early seventies, at Christmas, my family and I saw very bright lights in the same area. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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Nov. 14, 2009 - UFO sighting in Blacksburg, VA at approx. 5:45PM - 3 Lights, no movement, disappeared into thin air While driving on Price Fork from Radford, VA towards Blacksburg, VA at about 5:40-5:45 PM on Saturday, Nov.

14th, 2009 I noticed a formation of light in the sky from approximately the "Snuffy's" gas station until just before reaching Kips elementary school. The weather conditions were clear skies at dusk - but with plenty of light in the skies to make out objects - blue skies, not complete nightfall. The object appeared to be approximately one mile in elevation and perhaps about two or three miles away from my location - straight shot.

Skies were clear, there is little to no air traffic over southwest Virginia and if there are planes then typically at very high elevations - so lights normally appear very small. The light formation was composed of three large, horizontally oriented, oval shaped lights that were relative close to one another, like my depiction below with parentheses, and the lights appeared to wrap around the structure. ( )( )( ) Three things stuck out about the lights: 1) Lights made the structure appear much larger than any aircraft that would normally fly into the private airport that is located in Blacksburg - any aircraft that would be flying that low would be flying into or out of that airport; 2) There were no red and blue flashing lights indicating the wing tips that would be required 3) The lights made no movement, they appeared to remain at the same point in the sky even as I drove closer towards them.

Finally, the three lights simultaneously dimmed down, like a light dimmer switch you would have in a living room, rapidly until no lights remained. At this point the sky was still light enough to make out the shape and color of any craft had the lights just been turned off, or if the lights were on the front of the craft and they had just turned a new direction that would not allow the lights to be seen anymore - but nothing remained in the sky. I pulled into the Kips Elementary parking lot to inspect the sky but nothing was there, only two planes flying at very high altitudes not in the general vicinity of the sighting.

Whatever I saw just disappeared seemingly into thin air.

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Possible triangle craft spotted in Richmond VA I am 14 years old, and I also hold a 2nd Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. On the way home from T.K.

D. lessons, we had stopped in a traffic jam next to a high school football field. I peered out the window to get a better look at the traffic, and in the sky I saw 4 lights in a triangular formation; 3 white lights in each corner of the triangle and a single red light in the center.

It was dark, and all I could tell from the lights were that they did not flash or blink in any way. I know that there were some power lines around, but if there was a solid object behind those lights, it was enormous. I'm sure others saw it, but I can't be sure.

The craft did move, at a speed I estimate to be about 5 mph. I know that this was not the illusion created from the moving car, as I saw it move even when we were stopped. I didn't bother to tell my mom and sister, as they would just think I was joking.

I've heard of the theorized TR-3B "Government UFO," and I think that what I saw might bear a resemblance to the infamous Black Triangle. The lights were still there, even after the traffic started to pick up again. The next day, we took the same route to and from Tae Kwon Do lessons.

On the way to our lesson, I looked at the spot in the sky where I had spotted the 3 lights. There was nothing like a cellphone, VOR or radio tower in the vicinity. On the way home, I looked in the sky and the lights weren't there.

This still remains a mystery to me, and I'm still investigating this incident. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)).

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Two large glowing amber/dark orangish colored circular disks-not a sound- It happened during the evening. It was quite cloudy, but as the clouds moved through the sky, you could get a perfect glimpse of the clear sky with all the beautiful stars behind clouds. I was with my friend, she was driving that night, we were in her car when we say what we saw.

We drove to Leesburg and parked outside of an appartment complex, waiting for a friend to come out of their house. The sunroof of the car was open. As we waited, I gazed up at the sky, admiring the stars.

I even said, "I love looking at the stars". Right after I said that, my friend leaned back to stargaze with me. It was cloudy, as I said, but the clouds were thick and moving quickly over the sky, and through patches of the clouds we could see the clear sky perfectly.

The incident happened seconds after my friend leaned back to look at the stars with me, through the car sunroof. Then these two amber/orangish circular things came out of the clouds on one side, crossed over! each other where the sky was clear, then separated again above the thick clouds. They were pretty big.

They didn't make a single sound. My friend and I were speechless. It was so intense that my friend denied seeing anything and got very upset with me as I was very excited and repeatedly asked "did you see that?! Oh my God! You had to have seen that!" She refused to admit she saw what we did.

She became very quiet and dropped me off at my house. It was very strange and out of character for her. I came down to tell my parents about it.

My mother said, "oh it's the military." There is no way these objects were military. The way they moved through the air was out of this world, They way they maneuvered through the air, it seemed as if they were playing with each other or something.

The way they crossed over each other. I know what I saw. I will be haunted by it for the rest of my life.

Later my friend admitted she had seen it too. That is how intense this sighting was. My friend couldn't even come to terms with what we! saw.

I t scared her. It was quite the experience. Now I know there is something else out there other than us.

I wasn't scared by this sighting though. It seemed as though these glowing objects were playing with each other. The crafts did not make a single noise! Not a hum, nothing.

And I know there is no way we have the technology, top secret or not, that can move like that. My friend and I would be more than happy to tell you about it. I could describe it perfectly and draw a picture to and show exactly how it happened.

We are positive this was not human, or at least not from here. I never believed in "Aliens" visiting Earth. I always figured there was other life out there, but not like this.

Now I know.

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It looked sort of lime green. It appeared to have an odd texture. It had a dimples on its surface.

It was not smooth at all. It just floated or huvered in the air at about 50 ft. As I approached it moved away then a light flashed and then it dissapeared ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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Object moving unilaterally I came out on my deck because of a sound of a low flying helicopter. When I came outside, I did not see the helicopter but saw a plane way up where planes usually fly at, around 30,000 feet. I really felt a kind of experience next as I looked to the west north/west in the sky and saw another object.

At this moment I saw the plane and the object at the same time and could tell that the plane, moving at a fixed speed, was different than the other object. As I looked at the object longer it started to dominate my vision as the sky around the object began to turn pink and change color. It was moving towards me but in a fashion of looping circles and it was moving clearly faster than the plane as well as different directions.

It than took a different direction totally and went behind a cloud. I never have seen an object like this before and I couldn't stop looking at it. I knew it wasn't a plane because of the plane of reference that it was near.

The cloud was qu! ite big and I never saw the object again. But I have been a skeptic of UFO's for a long time always saying that if I saw it I would be the judge. This has made me more of a believer.

I am not sure if I can explain this in more detail but I had to let someone know about it.

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Moving lights with no sound. Around 11 pm on Oct 3rd my wife and I were trying to star gaze, but the moon was full. Then I noticed 2 bright lights very high in the eastern sky moving slowly southward.

These lights appeared to go dim before they disappeared, after that we seen streaks of light in the area. This is not the first time we have seen odd lights moving through the sky here. Sometimes we have seen moving lights that emits beams of light, flashes of light, multiple lights moving together and lights moving at a high rate of speed making 90 degree turns.

I guess what is really weird about all of this is we have had this happen directly over us sometimes and not one time has there been any sound?.