UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Washington, DC, DC, USA

Directly SE of DC, driving S on 395 I saw a BRIGHT yellow light ~3000' in the sky COMPLETELY still. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-12
Where
Washington, DC, DC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 hour +
Geo
38.895, -77.036 · exact
Slug
circle-over-washington-dc-dc-2017-e68ef3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Washington, DC, DC.
  • This case is one of 2 District of Columbia reports filed in 2017.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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