CaseSphere2002
Washington, D.C., DC, USA
On July 16, 2002 at 1:30 am, I went to photograph a building called the Carpenters Building. It had started to rain, and I didn't want
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-07-16
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-washington-d-c-dc-2002-0578ac
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Local cluster
Local cluster
5 reports came out of Washington, D.C., DC in July 2002 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Washington, D.C., DC has 109 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 12 reports from District of Columbia.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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