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Virginia UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 196 UFO sighting reports in Virginia from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (29 reports, 14.80% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (23 reports, 11.73% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (34 reports, 17.35% of total).
- 01/09/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 2.04% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (68 reports, 34.69% of total).
Virginia UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Virginia UFO reports from 2019, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Bright light above field, was not a star as I went to check on it 15 minutes later it was not there slowly moving across field toward mountain range.
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3:15 A.M. Bright Sphere in NW sky between Elnath (Taurus) & Capella zipping around in erratic pattern.
High altitude. I took my dog outside at 3 am so she could do her business. It was a clear crisp night, with little cloud cover, so I was admiring the beautiful stars in the night sky.
No moon was visible at the time. I looked to the NW at Capella which was very clear & bright. Then I looked towards Elnath in the Taurus constellation, which was also clearly visible with the naked eye.
Between these two stars were a few fainter stars,Kabdalinan & Mahasim, and then I saw movement. In between Elnath & Capella where no visible stars were, an object was zipping around in an erratic manner. Sharp 90 degree turns right, left, up, down & then diagonally.
No dissernable path or logic was evident in it's flight pattern & no great distance was covered. It would move a couple of inches left then up a couple then back. It was extremely high up, but was not moving between the stars, more like it was searching the area for something.
I heard no sound, & there were no airplanes or helicopters in the sky at that time of the morning. Stars don't move in different directions & back & forth. I got my binoculars out to make sure I was seeing this thing move & sure enough it was still zipping in every direction.
I watched it for a good 10 - 15 min. totally amazed at the manuverability of this object I've lived near numerous airports & military bases & have never seen any air craft with this capability. I ended up leaving the binoculars out, so that I would remember this event in the morning.
Even as I was doing so, I was trying to convince myself it was a dream. But I figured if they were left out & not put away then they would remind me of the encounter in the morning. No binoculars - it was a dream.
Binoculars left out. It really happened. Low & behold they were there in the morning.
I shared my experience with my pilot husband & daughter, & we joked it was Santa delivering toys, but if it was he has whiplash because those stop on a dime & change direction moves couldn't be ensured by humans. I just went out at 3:30 this morning 12/26/2019 to check the same spot. Same clear crisp weather, no star or object is visible in that part of the sky.
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While driving at night, I watched two blue-green light-emitting spheres flying fast While driving west at night, on rt. 3, about five miles east of Fredericksburg, Virginia, I watched two blue-green light-emitting spheres, flying fast, in tight formation, at about 600 feet above the ground, from the southwest toward the northeast. They were followed immediately by a pursuing aircraft with familiar, man-made looking navigation lights.
This all took about four seconds. I never heard a sound from any of the lights' sources.
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Driving down the road and see a Very long black silhouette Flying Through the sky Pulled over to see if I can hear a jet Noise but it wasn't making Any jet noise this it was quiet and blending Into the clouds. Definitely not a plane.
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Small seemingly round object with red lights that streaked from the north horizon to the south horizon in a matter of 1 to 2 seconds On the evening of December 23rd, 2019, right before sunset around 1625 my husband and I were standing outside when he looked up and noticed a small object in the north horizon hovering in the distance. We stood watching it for about 10 seconds or more and the object continue to hover NOT moving up or down or side-to-side. It seemed to be round and had multiple red lights that flashed.
Suddenly it shot across the sky in a straight line from the north to south along the horizon in a matter of 1 to 2 seconds making no sound whatsoever. It then stopped and hovered in the southern horizon for about 5 more seconds and disappeared. It definitely was not a plane and we tried to compare it to maybe a helicopter but there is NO WAY that even a helicopter could have moved that fast! All our life we have lived in this area that has an Army, Navy and Air Force bases near by and see multiple types of aircrafts constantly.
But we have NEVER seen anything that even comes close to what we saw that night!!.
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MADAR Node 141.
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Approx 7pm on Dec 21, 2019 i was outside and noticed what i thought was maybe a big meteor or similar object. It was very big and bright white colored light in the N.E direction of the sky.
It was VERY clear since the moon was not visible. It was the only light in the entire sky at the angle we were seeing it from. It would hover, then move, hover & start moving again for quite a few minutes(5).
Then it just suddenly just took off across the dark sky. My mother and I both witnessed this amazingly bright and odd acting "ufo". The moon is not visible tonight and it was about a 30% visibility in the sky but this light was extremely obvious.
You couldn't miss this thing. Within the first 2 mins of this sighting we also saw 4 military planes heading(VERY close together)coming from the West heading to the N.E.
direction this light originated from. The size MASSIVE & it was so noticeable in the sky it was strange. After about 5 mins watching the light pi! cked up speed and just simply zipped very quickly completely across the viewable sky.
It was heading SW. We watched in total about 8-ish mins until it was no longer visible at our location. This was NOT the ISS, nor was it an aircraft we're familiar with.
It would glid, then hover, then it would glid again,then hover.it repeated this for the majority of the time it was observed. The 4 airplanes we seen were making a very quick B-line to the NE sky.
It was obvious they were together as well as they were heading to rd the same destination with clear hast. I've seen anomalies in the sky quite often lately but I've never witnessed something as massive or as obvious as this was. It was AMAZING.
The lights were a bright white color, the shape was hard to make out but did seem like a sphere shape. There were no sounds from this object heard. It did actually have a aura around it, kind of similiar to a fog that faded out.
The entire sphere was illuminated from our location. All o! ne color. The light did seem to brighten, then fade .
Then ! brighten and fade, it repeated this pattern until it quit hovering. When it would brighten the light would increase in size but the color remained the same. It was Unnatural lighting, anti gravity movements and impossible speed.
It went from one end of the sky to the other within about 3 mins and was SO big and bright it IMMEDIATELY was noticeable and odd. It was drastically different and unusually bright from any the norm that anyone actually looking would have seen this with amazing ease!.
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Line of lights It was a line of 5 lights moving in formation then standing still they the lights separated.
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Driving down Centralia rd going SE, I happened to have something catch my eye, and I looked up and exclaimed to my husband and kids in the backseat (young children), “Look a falling Star!!l but a closer look would suggest this was no falling star, as there was no trail, and the color was a blue light in a circle shape that changed to a bright green color within seconds as it fell toward the ground. I would say it was closer than any other object I have seen in the sky before like airplanes or shooting stars. It fell slowly and then disappeared into the darkness in the blink of an eye after about 5-7 seconds.
Me and my husband were in awe and excited to have witnessed this! Sad we were not able to get pictures in time.
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White "clouds" merge into translucent shape Mostly clear morning, looked up and saw what looked like two small white clouds very high in the atmosphere. The two clouds were "floating" very quickly, faster than a typical plane that high up. The white lines moved closer together until parallel, then "merged" into a translucent oval with white edges which faded.
I looked away for a moment and looked back and could no longer see the apparition-like structure.
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My wife was driving southeast on a fairly populated main side road, it was dark out side at about 6:43pm, And my wife exclaimed” falling star baby look quick!” When I looked up I saw not a falling star but a bright ball of light , one that was closer than any shooting star I have ever seen, it had a blue glow changing into green colors of light as it fell from the sky. It fell as if falling from an invisible opening in the sky. the night was a crystal clear night sky so no clouds or precipitation to obstruct our view and the object was closer than any I have ever witnessed before.
The way the object fell was too slow to be a meteor or falling star, also noting that there was no “light trail” following behind the object as it fell. We watched it fall for about 5 seconds before it disappeared into the dark night sky somewhere close to the earth surface. It was the strangest light; object; ufo.
I have encountered and felt a duty to report it.
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The craft was a circle then forming into a teardrop shape then back to a circle. It stayed in the same spot for at least 25 minutes.
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MADAR Node 141.
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MADAR Node 122.
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Medium light orb fell from the sky into the trees. I was driving from my boyfriends house on Bailey Bridge Rd in N Chesterfield, VA, heading towards Hull Street. I was passing Battlecreek Drive and saw a orb of light the size of a stop light when you are sitting at the Intersection.
It was very quick, and seemed to curve slightly, it dropped from right above the tree line into the tall trees that are to the left of the turn from Bailey Bridge Rd onto Battlecreek Drive. I also think it might have dimmed a little bit, but that also could have been the trees.
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3 light grey spheres close together moving silently @ a steady pace.
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Saw a side ways cigar shaped thing hover west of Short Pump Virginia. It stayed in same area and position for about 20 minutes with white lights either blinking or moving around the shape. Then it just disappeared.
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MADAR Node 68.
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Group of “stars” in perfect triangular shape At 23:15 me and my husband were looking at the stars. We noticed a bunch of “stars” in a perfect triangular shape pass over our heads heading south. We initially thought it was a flock of birds, but the birds would have been dark and not white looking like a group of stars.
In that perfect triangle were a few “stars” missing.There was no sound. It also flew seemingly faster than any plane.
It was definitely something we’ve never seen before. (My husband is military and live near a base so we are used to planes flying).
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MADAR Node 68.
Virginia UFO Sightings From 2019 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 29 reported sightings | 14.80% of all reports |
Circle | 22 reported sightings | 11.22% of all reports |
Triangle | 13 reported sightings | 6.63% of all reports |
Fireball | 10 reported sightings | 5.10% of all reports |
Unknown | 8 reported sightings | 4.08% of all reports |
Sphere | 8 reported sightings | 4.08% of all reports |
Other | 8 reported sightings | 4.08% of all reports |
Disk | 7 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Oval | 7 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Egg | 4 reported sightings | 2.04% of all reports |
Flash | 4 reported sightings | 2.04% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 2.04% of all reports |
Formation | 4 reported sightings | 2.04% of all reports |
Chevron | 4 reported sightings | 2.04% of all reports |
Teardrop | 3 reported sightings | 1.53% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 1.02% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 0.51% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 0.51% of all reports |
Virginia UFO Sightings From 2019 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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December | 23 reported sightings | 11.73% of all reports |
October | 23 reported sightings | 11.73% of all reports |
September | 22 reported sightings | 11.22% of all reports |
January | 21 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
July | 17 reported sightings | 8.67% of all reports |
May | 17 reported sightings | 8.67% of all reports |
April | 15 reported sightings | 7.65% of all reports |
November | 14 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
August | 14 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
June | 13 reported sightings | 6.63% of all reports |
February | 10 reported sightings | 5.10% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 3.57% of all reports |
Virginia UFO Sightings From 2019 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Sunday | 34 reported sightings | 17.35% of all reports |
Monday | 33 reported sightings | 16.84% of all reports |
Saturday | 30 reported sightings | 15.31% of all reports |
Wednesday | 28 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Friday | 25 reported sightings | 12.76% of all reports |
Tuesday | 25 reported sightings | 12.76% of all reports |
Thursday | 21 reported sightings | 10.71% of all reports |
Virginia UFO Sightings From 2019 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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01/09/19 | 4 reported sightings | 2.04% of all reports |
09/20/19 | 4 reported sightings | 2.04% of all reports |
11/11/19 | 4 reported sightings | 2.04% of all reports |
09/22/19 | 3 reported sightings | 1.53% of all reports |
04/16/19 | 3 reported sightings | 1.53% of all reports |
Virginia UFO Sightings From 2019 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 68 reported sightings | 34.69% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 45 reported sightings | 22.96% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 23 reported sightings | 11.73% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 22 reported sightings | 11.22% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 19 reported sightings | 9.69% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 19 reported sightings | 9.69% of all reports |
All Virginia Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Virginia, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Virginia
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Virginia.