Washington, D.C., DC, USA
22:55 U.S. eastern From a third floor balcony facing Northwest, observed a bright red-orange light that I thought at first was a Chine
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-05
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-washington-d-c-dc-2011-bc6e0c
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
- Washington, D.C., DC shows up 109 times across the archive.
- 8 reports came from District of Columbia in 2011.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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