If it’s not a bird and not a plane, what is it?
Alexandria can now add another distinction to the list, as the city has the third-most UFO sightings in Virginia, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.
NUFORC has listed 118 UFO sightings in Alexandria dating back to 2001, putting the city behind Richmond with 140 sightings and Virginia Beach with 193 sightings.
On Feb. 10, 2023, a man with his daughter at a bus stop outside an apartment complex reported seeing two “white oval-like objects up in the sky.”
“I was talking to my daughter at the bus stop this morning and we were looking up at the moon,” the man reported. “When we first spotted them, they were flying close together, and then they began moving in various directions. One moved in a circle-like motion, the other more erratically, and covered more distance very quickly. I was able to snap one photo, and when I looked up to take another one, they both had disappeared. Shortly after they disappeared, I saw a plane fly over, and it confirmed the previous two objects were much too high to have been planes.”
In 2020, another Alexandria resident reported seeing something in the air he couldn’t explain.
“I’m not crazy, but we saw something that we couldn’t identify,” the man reported. “On the evening of September 15th, my twin sister, 16-year-old nephew, and I were sitting on the deck eating dinner. We looked up and saw a bright light that did not move. My nephew said it was a helicopter, but I said it was stagnant and not moving. Then there was a big bright burst, and it collapsed into itself and disappeared, just like a hyper-speed scene in a science fiction movie. We all looked at each other and said, ‘What did we just see?’ A few seconds later, we saw it again in the exact same place in the sky! I ran into the house to get my husband, 8-year-old son, 12-year-old daughter, and 13-year-old niece. We all stood watching it in disbelief. My daughter took a picture and a video of it with her iPhone 11. Then it disappeared again. I sat outside for another hour watching the same spot in the sky, but it never reappeared.”
Have you ever seen a UFO in Alexandria? Let us know in the comments!
