UFOMYST
CaseCircle2021

Washington, DC, USA

Spherical UFO flies behind the US capitol building.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-07-01
Where
Washington, DC, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.895, -77.036 · exact
Slug
circle-over-washington-dc-2021-7b1e0e
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 →

In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from Washington, DC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • District of Columbia logged 3 sightings in 2021.
  • Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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