UFOMYST
Caseother1997

Washington, D.C., DC, USA

While on vacation in Washington, DC, standing in front of the White House, my 8 yr old son captured something very strange on our video

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: 23s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-28
Where
Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Shape
other
Duration
.23 secs
Geo
38.895, -77.036 · exact
Slug
other-over-washington-d-c-dc-1997-668757
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Washington, D.C., DC logged 3 reports in the single month of July 1997.

In context

  • One of 109 documented reports from Washington, D.C., DC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • District of Columbia logged 3 sightings in 1997.
  • Other sightings ran at 8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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