Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Cylindrical object over Washington D.C. viewd from near Smithsonian Metro Station
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-13
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3 to 5 min
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-washington-d-c-dc-2008-1eacaa
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, D.C., DC has 109 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 7 reports from District of Columbia.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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