Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Elongated and flattened 6 inch dome, with 1 bright light, hovers and darts like dragonfly, D.C. Mall, 7-4-97
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-04
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-washington-d-c-dc-1997-8e9722
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Washington, D.C., DC reports filed in July 1997.
In context
- Washington, D.C., DC shows up 109 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from District of Columbia in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.