CaseLight1953
Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Four witnesses in Washington, D.C. reported a ball of light emerging from the sky, circling a passing airplane, then shooting off out of sight within three to five minutes in July 1953.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (185 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1953-07-13
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-5 min.
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-washington-d-c-dc-1953-d041b9
In context
- Washington, D.C., DC has 109 sightings on file here.
- 1953 brought 1 reports from District of Columbia.
- The 1950s skewed 11.5% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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