Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Daytime sighting of bright light changing to stationary white/blue gray annulus and then moved very fast.
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: 135s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-06-11
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1.5 -3 min
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-washington-d-c-dc-2008-dae761
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
- This is one of 109 reports logged in Washington, D.C., DC.
- This case is one of 7 District of Columbia reports filed in 2008.
- Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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