Washington, D.C., DC, USA
Triangular shaped object flew across sky during Wash, DC 7/4/13 fireworks display.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-07-04
- Where
- Washington, D.C., DC, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.895, -77.036 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-washington-d-c-dc-2013-b53811
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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In context
- This is one of 109 reports logged in Washington, D.C., DC.
- This case is one of 2 District of Columbia reports filed in 2013.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
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