UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2004

Washington, D.C., suburbs, VA, USA

((HOAX??)) Disk flys really fast.

Report quality: Low12/100

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
  • Brief witness text (22 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2004-05-21
Where
Washington, D.C., suburbs, VA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
One Min
Geo
38.713, -78.159 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-washington-d-c-suburbs-va-2004-c49cab
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Washington, D.C., suburbs, VA.
  • This case is one of 55 Virginia reports filed in 2004.
  • Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% 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.