UFOMYST
CaseCigar2009

Washington, D.C., DC, USA

I was watching this video on cnn.com look in the far right and watch object fly past sky infront of statue

Report quality: Moderate57/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-01-20
Where
Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
1 sec
Geo
38.895, -77.036 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-washington-d-c-dc-2009-fa4708
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

January 2009 was a busy month for Washington, D.C., DC: 3 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 109 reports logged in Washington, D.C., DC.
  • This case is one of 8 District of Columbia reports filed in 2009.
  • Cigar craft made up 2.7% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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