CaseOther2012

Washington, DC, USA

A group of darting/revolving round white lights moving together at a very high speed across the sky.

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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (100 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-29
Where
Washington, DC, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
8 to 10 seconds
Geo
38.895, -77.036 · exact
Slug
other-over-washington-dc-2012-25d6b8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • One of 11 documented reports from Washington, DC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • District of Columbia logged 11 sightings in 2012.
  • Other sightings ran at 6.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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