Washington, D.C. (6 miles west of), DC, USA
((HOAX??)) I had the urge to buy Hersheys Kisses afterwards as I felt on a sugar low. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Low21/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2018-09-21
- Where
- Washington, D.C. (6 miles west of), DC, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-washington-d-c-6-miles-west-of-dc-2018-7b0f9d
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Washington, D.C. (6 miles west of), DC in the UFOMYST archive.
- District of Columbia logged 3 sightings in 2018.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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