CaseCylinder2006

Washington, D.C. (area), DC, USA

Sighting recorded Friday November 10th, 8:20AM. I witnessed an object off the lower left side of the plane (South/West). It would be be

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-11-10
Where
Washington, D.C. (area), DC, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
30 Seconds
Geo
38.895, -77.036 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-washington-d-c-area-dc-2006-79b53a
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…

In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Washington, D.C. (area), DC.
  • This case is one of 7 District of Columbia reports filed in 2006.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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