Washington, DC, DC, USA
A colorful object was seen from a far distance. It gave off red, then orange. then yellowish white light. have pictures.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (120 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-02-09
- Where
- Washington, DC, DC, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 40 minutes
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-washington-dc-dc-2015-1215e3
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Washington, DC, DC has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 3 reports from District of Columbia.
- The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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