UFO sightings in Virginia
The airspace off Virginia has become central to the modern debate: Navy pilots including Ryan Graves reported near-daily encounters with objects there from 2014, and in 2025 the Pentagon disclosed a cluster of around a hundred unidentified objects off the coast. It is where the current military story is most active.
Saw something over Virginia?
Most strange lights have an ordinary cause. Run the identifier: seven questions and the three most likely explanations, from a Starlink train to Venus to a drone, each with how to confirm it.
Note the exact time, the compass direction, the height above the horizon, how long it lasted and how it moved. Check a flight tracker and a satellite app before deciding it is unexplained.
File it. The National UFO Reporting Center and MUFON take reports from every US state, Virginia included, and their databases are where the per-state counts actually live.
Other states with famous cases
The famous cases above follow the public record; XenoAtlas documents claims and their explanations and takes no position on whether any involved non-human contact. Per-state sighting counts are maintained by NUFORC and MUFON. For the big cases on a map, see the case files.