CaseCylinder2002

Washington, D.C. to Kansas City, DC, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Washington, D.C. to Kansas City, DC, USA
Start: 2002-08-01
Location: Washington, D.C. to Kansas City, DC, USA

Metallic cylinder shape hovering at 45 degree angle outside airplane window

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (75 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 2002-08-01
Where: Washington, D.C. to Kansas City, DC, USA
Shape: Cylinder
Duration: 20 minutes
Geo: 38.895, -77.036 · exact
Slug: cylinder-over-washington-d-c-to-kansas-city-dc-2002-26c896

In context

Washington, D.C. to Kansas City, DC has 1 sightings on file here.
2002 brought 12 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 days

Changing · Washington, D.C. (Roosevelt Island Area), DC<1 km · 1d apart
Circle · Washington, D.C., DC<1 km · 6d apart
Unknown · Washington, D.C., DC<1 km · 6d apart

Report

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