Flash over Washington, D.C., DC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
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Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #122780). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-12-05 → 2014-12-22
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February 7, 2022 · 6:39 PM · UNKNOWN
Washington, D.C., DC
I was sitting in my chair facing the window, the lights in my room were out and a big thing with no lights and almost no sound flew between my building and the building across the street. I was kind of far away from the window so the passing object was only in sight for maybe half a second. It was ovular with what looked like a vertical stabilizer on its rear end, which makes me believe it was a propellor plane or a particularly long helicopter. However, it made almost no sound and had no identifying lights, unlike any other helicopter I had seen. My roommate and I will often hear helicopters and open the curtains to look at them long before we can actually see them, so I know that they aren't usually this quiet. I ran down the hallway to try to see it out another window but I couldn't. In the seconds after I saw it, I was expecting an explosion due to how low flying the thing was.
May 27, 2021 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Washington, D.C., DC
On the evening of May 27, while I was photographing the ‘Buffalo Bridge’ in Georgetown to enter in the Georgetowner summer photo contest, I noticed unusual activity in the sky in the picture I took. The phenomena are evident in the still photos I took. I would like to show them to you. At the begging was a dot change to like a line of light moving from the east to northeast. The picture was at the evening I was there also on the 25 of may but the night of the 27 of May I went again during the evening and capture the event on still photos. I have diferentes time at the same location. May, 27 (4) four photos call my attention was take by the second per second during the night June, 5 (4) four photos clear sky you don’t see it nothing but once you enlarge the photo you can see the objects. I took a photo by the second.
May 14, 2018 · 12:00 AM · DISK
Washington, D.C., DC
I was in bed sleeping I turned over on my back opened my eyes and I could see through the bed room celling, when I looked into sky I saw it flying over my apt blinding, lights flashing, I tried to yell or speak but I couldn’t do it as I was looking into the sky! Soon it was gone; it lasted about 5 mins
October 2, 2016 · 11:00 AM · OTHER
Washington, D.C., DC
At first I thought it could have been an unusual entanglement of those narrow balloons used to make balloon animals, however, I don’t believe they could have floated in this position with helium. The object moved only slightly, despite a breeze which would have greatly moved even an anchored balloon. No wire, ribbon or any kind of string was present. As I ran around the corner to try and get right underneath it, I could not find it.
April 12, 2016 · 1:30 AM · CIRCLE
Washington, D.C., DC
Whiles siting on my couch watching tv, i see a round object with a bright light coming from it. The object flew across the sky at about the same speed as a shooting star however it never faded out or changed velocity. The light coming from it flared a little as if it was a fire. Because of how fast it was moving I only managed a few gazing seconds before it moved out of sight.
March 15, 2016 · 11:15 PM · CHEVRON
Washington, D.C., DC
the boomerang shaped object was very large and was composed of about 17 large white lights one in the center and the others around it making a boomerang shape. i watched it slowly going across the sky. then another object something like a helicopter came towards it and was flying under it for a distance. After the object had floated away, the helicopter type object went back to a stationary position in the night sky. During this whole event there was no sound and possibly no sightings unless someone else was using night vision goggles the way i was because when i tried seeing the object with binoculars it was invisible i had to use my nvg to see it. the helicopter type object could be seen with binoculars but not the boomerang.