UFOMYST
CaseSphere2011

Washington, D.C., DC, USA

while watching the debt debate on cnn news channel we witnessed an ornage sphere flying over the capital during an commercial break on

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-31
Where
Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
38.895, -77.036 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-washington-d-c-dc-2011-e28b08
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Washington, D.C., DC logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2011.

In context

  • One of 109 documented reports from Washington, D.C., DC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • District of Columbia logged 8 sightings in 2011.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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