All Reported UFO Sightings in Springfield, Virginia

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Moving north I guess, took photo, looked down, but when I looked back it was gone I was driving south on I-395 today, 9-24-2022, and noticed a bright light in the sky. At around 7:30, the sky was still light on one side, but I was looking slightly to the southeast, so it was a bit darker. The light beacon coming from the object was exceptionally strong, as I could see the very bright beam from my very well-lit area (the “mixing bowl), and I didn’t think it could be a plane or helicopter.

It looked like a beacon starting from a slender line beaming out wide in a single direction, but not at anything in particular. I couldn’t tell if it was moving while I was driving, and I wanted to get a better look. I took the Springfield / Old Keene Mill exit and pulled into the Springfield Plaza Shopping Center.

I parked in the lot north of Panda Express facing the Homewood Suites. After watching and realizing it was moving in a northerly direction, I decided to take some photos. I looked at the photos closely after taking each one, and then would take another photo, three photos in all.

It wasn’t moving very fast. After looking at the third photo, I looked back up where it should be (based on the speed it had been going), and it was gone. Looking back at the photos, I noticed that there was a “spot” on one of them.

I zoomed in to see a flat square object. Weather was calm and mostly clear. I started to drive home, and then thought to look at the clock.

It was 7:44 when I looked, so I think it was around 7:35 when I first noticed it.

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ufo next to the north star The object was to the right of the north star and it started moving slowly and then it picked up speed and then every 2 minutes sparks and dots came out and then it flew away out of sight. the abject was solid red with a green outline. then about 15 minutes later it the same abject appeared right out of nowhere AND THEN TWO CATS FROM INSIDE CAME TO THE WINDOW WHICH MEANS THEY MUST HAVE HEARD IT BUT THE OBJECT WAS SILENT.

when IT CAME BACK IT WAS MUCH CLOSER THEN LAST TIME AND IT DID NOT MOVE AS MUCH AND IT WAS GOING LIKE THAT FOR ABOUT 8 MINUTES and then it just disappeared out of nowhere.

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Silent, moving light or shiny object observed in full daylight over Northern Virginia I live near a flight path for Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA). I was in our backyard, and had just watched (and heard) a jet fly roughly overhead (NE) in its landing pattern towards DCA. A minute or so later, I saw a bright light or shiny object moving in the opposite direction (SW).

It moved at roughly the same relative speed as the jet, given the jet was probably 2000-5000 feet above me. I assumed this shiny object was also a plane, with the Sun reflecting off it, but it made no noise whatsoever. As it moved away, it took on the appearance of two lights, but i can't vouch for that as I sometimes see slightly double at a distance.

The brightness, considering this was broad daylight and a completely cloudless sky, and the complete lack of noise were enough to make me think twice. When it disappeared behind a tree, I got up and exited our backyard to the parking lot behind our house to get another look. The trip took me three seconds, but when I to got the parking lot, the object was no longer visible.

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

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Big orange circle vanishes Orange glow in SE sky, moving too fast for a plane and not in normal flight patterns for this area. Was much brighter than anything in the sky. Was super bright, shot straight up then vanished.

Waited about ten minutes and it never reappeared.

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Four Orange lights over Springfield, VA. Outside looking north toward DC, when three objects in a straight line this would be north appeared. They continued moving southwest eventually going over my head and disappearing.

At first I thought it was helicopters flying, but there was absolutely no noise from them. I have seen a fireball before and they definitely were not one of them. No tail like a fireball has.

The lights did not blink like planes either. Not sure what they were but never saw anything like it before. Hope this stays up and others saw it to just don't know where else to look this up so I thought I would post here.

((NUFORC Note: We have amended the time, but we have no way of confirming it. The witness provided no contact information. PD)).

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Bright light seen moving across sky at impossible speed. i saw the bright light in the sky near the beltway heading south about a week ago and again yesterday. this was unmistakeable i know how planes, helicopter, even shooting stars look.

this was a different brighter light that stayed in a fixed position in the sky and then moved at a constant impossible speed across the sky until it dissapeared. lasted about 4 seconds. happened both times around 930pm.

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Strange craft on Rolling Road next to military facilities. I was driving on Rolling Road last night, granted its next to an army airport. The shape of the craft was very unusual.

It was triangle shaped from the below profile with flashing lights and from the back it had a flat area almost like a scoreboard with 6-8 large flashing lights. It hovered very low, 300 ft-500 ft, and then accelerated quietly over the tree line. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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Crazy. I herd a loud intensely loud noise coming for outside I go out and it sounds like Jet almost 3 differnt lights it kept circling and the speed would change. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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Metalic cigar shaped object sighted during lull in a storm in Springfield, VA During a lull in a storm I looked out through the blinds in my office to the east at an elevation of approximately 80 deg. to view the storm clouds. Some sun and blue sky was appearing since the storm was winding down.

At that point I observed a cigar shaped object that at first looked like the fusilage of an airliner with a blue metallic tint, but no windows evident. Further obervation failed to disclose wings or rotors, nor did I hear any sound whatsoever coming from this object. It moved slowly to the southeast right into a cloud bank.

I continued to watch but it never reappeared. Helicopters, airplanes and jets of all sorts frequent this area as this location is near several airports. I can always hear the rotors or engines droning but this object made no sound.

It took me several days to completely comprehend what I had observed. I am convinced that it was not any type of conventional aircraft. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information.

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

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Light shoots quickly across the sky. At around 7, I was at a scout event taking place outside. Then, randomly, there was this light shooting across the sky.

I didn't think anything of it then. But, afterwards, I realized it shot across the whole distance of the sky in about 2-3 seconds. It had no noticeable shape, just some kind of light.

There was also a noise that sounded light a car passing by at a fair distance.

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12:15 AM March 6, 2008 I was driving back home from my brother’s apartment in Alexandria, VA right around midnight when I saw this object. I was driving west on the Fairfax County Parkway into Springfield where my parents live when I noticed an unusually bright air plane about 35 degrees from the horizon in the west/north-west region of the sky. Living in Springfield I am located between two major airports; Washington International, and Dulles.

Seeing many air planes in the Northern Virginia sky is extremely common, air traffic is quite busy in this area. However, at night air planes have a distinct brightness and have flashing lights on the wings to identify commercial air craft, and are not hard to determine. The craft I saw was about four to five times brighter than the other air planes in the sky and had a golden white light emitting from all sides.

I did not see any blinking lights that resembled the lights on regular air planes. There were commercial airplanes flying in other parts of the sky during the sighting so I could tell that this craft appeared quite different. Continuing my route home, I noticed that I was getting much closer to the object.

It appeared to have been flying close to the Fairfax County Parkway. I also remember that I couldn’t take my eyes off it, it seemed too bright and was moving way to slow and just seemed out of place. It was approximately 5 minutes after initially spotting it that I got close enough to it that I could see that it was not a helicopter.

It was also silent; I couldn’t hear any engine sounds of any kind. It seemed to have been flying over the neighborhood near Hunt Valley elementary school before I saw it slowly cross over the Fairfax County Parkway. I drove right underneath the craft as it crossed over the road right by the Sunoco gas station located on the Gambrill road exit ramp.

When I was approaching the craft just before driving directly underneath it I could tell that this object was about 250-300 feet off the ground and was moving at maybe 50-100 mph. I remember stretching my neck out of my window to get a closer look at it when it silently floated across the parkway, and over the neighborhood on the other side. While looking at the craft from underneath, it looked like a diamond shape but with an elongated front point.

I could not see any wings, granted it was dark out, but I was able to see that the whole craft had a white-ish yellow glow with two yellow point lights close together that did not blink on the underside. I would estimate from the distance it looked in the air, that the size of this object was anywhere between 70 to 90 feet long and about 20 feet wide. After it crossed over the parkway, I kept turning my head back and saw it fly barely over the tree line bordering that neighborhood.

I tried to keep my eye on it as I was just about home. When I turned off the parkway onto the Hooes road exit I could still see it barely above the trees, and still so bright. I lost sight of it as I turned into my neighborhood across the bridge from the fire station.

I would say that I lost sight of it as it was somewhere above the Newington Forest area. This object seemed to be flying too low and too slow to be passenger airliner or single passenger plane.

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Bright light in Cardinal Plaza I was walking into the Cardinal Plaza Parking Lot when I saw this bright light. The weird thing about it is that it then just, disapeered. I told some people but 1 belived me.

It could've been a satelite, but it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD)).

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A light kept getting bigger then dissapeared without a trace. When I came out of an antique store, I saw this bright light. It just kept getting bigger then, it dissapeared.

No one I told believed me, except this one guy. There is no photo, video, or any sort of thing. It was nothing like on Earth.

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

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Red Green lights on metal aircraft with aura around it viewed in Springfield VA. I was watching Thats So Raven, like usual and my mother asked me to let my dog out to do its buissness. It went out and looked in the sky for a shooting star, airplane, or UFO.

I looked up at a large metal-looking object. OMG! It had clear beans of light coming out of it, two red and two green lights were on the "ship", there was a white has around it. The hase looked like a cloud moving around it and moving with it.

The object made a hwow noise about five times and slowly went away. A light beam went near me as I stepped into it. It did nothing to me.

It was like a almost blinding spotlight. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).

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Two "jellyfish" shaped UFOs floating above skies of Springfield, VA. Late summer of 2003, one afternoon, my wife and I were traveling east on Franconia Springfield Parkway, Springfield, VA. Just pass the Springfield Metro (subway station) and at about 11:00 O'clock position, my wife noticed two strange cloud-like formations in the sky.

She pointed these objects out to me and they were very noticeable, being that the sky was rather clear and blue. At first I thought they were hot air balloons but then I noticed that they were like vapor clouds, and somewhat thick in consistency since both were casting a shadow. The shape of these UFOs were identical to each other, their tops were circular in shape, as domes, and both had "trails" at their base, similar to tentacles from a jellyfish.

They did not seem to move from their positions, static as they floated above. I do recall thinking that they may have been the results of an aircraft "aerial backfires" (if there is such a thing) spewing vaporous balls of smoky, oily residue. No sounds were emitted.

More info at this site: http://((URL deleted)).

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Bright Pale Blue Flash - No Sound - Street Lights Went Out We were driving west on Keene Mill Road, approaching the intersection with Greeley Boulevard in Springfield, VA. At about 8:12 PM EST there was a bright pale blue flash which lit up the sky and area we were driving in. Everything lit up, so we could not tell which direction (if any) the light came from.

It "seemed" to be either from above or that we were "within" the flash. The street lights all went out, but power to homes remained on. There was no sound.

The sky was clear, slight winds (maybe 5 mph) and the temperature was around 32 degrees F. We continued driving towards home and when we got to another area of street lights, they were also out, but beginning to come back on. This area was one mile southwest of the point where we saw the flash.

((NUFORC Note: We wonder whether the event might have been caused by the explosion of one of the local transformers. We have received several such reports. PD)).

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5-6 Round Silvery Objects at 40K feet and Rocket Like Objects My friend ((deleted)) and I were driving from Springfield, VA towards Woodbridge, VA via I 95. As we started heading south, I noticed something falling from the sky in a straight-down vertical path. It looked like something on fire dropping from the sky.

For a split second, (having flashbacks to 9/11) I thought it might be a plane heading down. Then, I see other objects falling too, in more of an arc fashion. Also, I notice about 5-6 silvery round objects at about a 40,000 foot height in the sky.

My friend and I watch all of this, and notice one of the fiery objects, turn and go north after it had been falling south. We initially thought what we were seeing was "space junk" but that was quickly ruled out with the other vehicles flying around and also the fact that the fiery object went north. There were two different objects.

The silvery round ones high in the sky and the fiery Rocket like objects falling and climbing. The next evening (1/28) I observed the same thing again (that is when I got a better look at the fiery objects). There were the 5-6 silver round objects and the falling fiery ones at 445 p.

m. in the evening at the same location in the sky. I live between Ft.

Belvoir and Quantico, but on information I could find said anything about air shows or testing of any sort. Anyone have any ideas as to what we could have seen. Our third witness was my husband's coworker (not with us at the time) who saw the same objects we had seen on Sunday.

I haven't found anyone else who has seen it from people that I have asked.

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Large unknown object over Northern Virginia. I'm writing to report a sighting of an unusual craft. At about 8:40pm that Friday, I drove to a nearby gas station from my home to get a pack of cigarettes.

As I was driving back home I noticed a very large craft of some kind Flying relatively low in the sky. It was about the size of an audio tape long wise at arms length. I saw two lights at first thinking that is was two airplanes flying side by side in unison.

Then I realised it was one large object when I saw a small red light beside the far right light. As the object went out of view behind some trees, I followed in my car for about a minute and caught a better look from the rear. It was three lights in a line with the small red light just a bit lower to the right.

As I watched the object trying to see if there was any discernable shape to it, I noticed that there was absolutely no noise coming from it. I live in an area between Reagan National and Dulless International Airport and am familiar with the types of planes ad helecopters that fly in this area. For any plane to have been that size in my field of view, it would have been making a recognizable deep rumble sound.

This object was higher up in the sky and was bigger that anything I have ever seen fly anywhere. It seemed to glide though the sky heading south when it went out of view. I was surprised that nobody else saw this in my area given its large population.

Whatever it was, I think it was intended for peolple to see it since it was so large and flying so low.