Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Saw a green orb shoot straight down. Too low for a shooting star. Brilliant emerald color.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-12-08
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-washington-d-c-dc-2014-230e5f
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
- One of 109 documented reports from Washington, D.C., DC in the UFOMYST archive.
- District of Columbia logged 7 sightings in 2014.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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