CaseLight2021
Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Light dots moving in the sky
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-27
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-washington-d-c-dc-2021-cf37ef
Wave
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 shows up 109 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from District of Columbia in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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