CaseSphere2002

Washington, D.C., DC, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Start: 2002-07-16
Location: Washington, D.C., DC, USA

On July 16, 2002 at 1:30 am, I went to photograph a building called the Carpenters Building. It had started to rain, and I didn't want

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (134 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 2002-07-16
Where: Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Shape: Sphere
Duration: 45 seconds
Geo: 38.895, -77.036 · exact
Slug: sphere-over-washington-d-c-dc-2002-0578ac

Local cluster

5 reports came out of Washington, D.C., DC in July 2002 alone — a local cluster.

In context

Washington, D.C., DC has 109 sightings on file here.
2002 brought 12 reports from District of Columbia.
The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Fireball · Washington, D.C., DC<1 km · 4d apart
Light · Washington, D.C., DC<1 km · 9d apart
Circle · Washington, D.C., DC<1 km · 10d apart

Report

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