Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Taking a picture and two objects moved quickly past in both pictures. It was so quick no one saw them but they are in the two pictures
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-03-16
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- seconds
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-washington-d-c-dc-2013-495b31
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
- This is one of 109 reports logged in Washington, D.C., DC.
- This case is one of 2 District of Columbia reports filed in 2013.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.