CaseUnknown2017

Washington, DC, USA

Buzzing Lighted Craft. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (22 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-21
Where
Washington, DC, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
1 minute
Geo
38.895, -77.036 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-washington-dc-2017-9f617b
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

  • Washington, DC shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 2 reports came from District of Columbia in 2017.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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