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District of Columbia · District of Columbia · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria Metro
Washington is a major city in District of Columbia with a population of 672,079. Residents earn $106,287 per year, which is 41% above the national average.
3.3
/5.0
B
Good
672,079
Population
10,994/sq mi density
$106,287
Median Income
$75,253 per capita
$724,600
Home Value
$574,016 Zillow
$1,900
Median Rent
28.5% income on rent
58°F
Avg Temperature
293 sunny days/yr
977
Violent Crime/100K
4,246 property/100K
B
Overall
3.3 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
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Economy
4.3 / 5.0
$106,287 median income, 4.6% unemployment
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Affordability
2.8 / 5.0
$724,600 home value, $1,900/mo rent
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Safety
1.0 / 5.0
977 violent crimes/100K (157% above avg)
A+
Education
5.0 / 5.0
63.6% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings Near Washington, DC
98 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Washington, DC.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2014 | 8 orbs of light flew directly over head in a formation before a synchronized deformation and dissapearance. Lone orb 5 min later. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2013 | Taking a picture and two objects moved quickly past in both pictures. It was so quick no one saw them but they are in the two pictures |
| Washington, dc, DC | 2013 | Triangular shaped object flew across sky during Wash, DC 7/4/13 fireworks display. |
| Guarenas (venezuela), DC | 2012 | Me gustaría me enviaran mas información con respecto a la esfera que vi, gracias. |
| Washington, DC | 2012 | 3 objects in 15 minutes, 2 balls of light moving north to south and 1 shape changing white "ball" moving in same direction |
| Washington, DC | 2012 | A group of darting/revolving round white lights moving together at a very high speed across the sky. |
| Washington, DC | 2012 | 6 glowing objects fly near roof. (reoccuring) |
| Washington, DC | 2012 | Luminous spheres in flight, then suddenly vanishing into nothingness |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2012 | Ball of light brighly flashing green and orange. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2012 | At about 3:00 am I was watching out my window, which faced East. I noticed a very bright ball of light passing from North to South. It |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2012 | 2 luminous spheres converged into the image frame from 2 different directions, and flew by |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2012 | Saw a triangular craft flying north to south, few minutes saw a chemtrail moving east to west. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2012 | Perfectly vertical streak of light |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2012 | Two lights/objects over DC with quick, erratic movements |
| Washington, dc, DC | 2012 | MUFON CONFIRMS ORB UFOS OVER WASHINGTON DC, DEC. 2012. |
| Georgetown, DC | 2011 | metallic disk hovering silent in crowded airspace shoots up out of site leaves smoke cloud |
| Washington, DC | 2011 | Luminous object thought to be a star? |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2011 | I was watching web-cams in Washington DC as The Agency had notified forums members on the 10th of Feb that they would fly their craft o |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2011 | while watching the debt debate on cnn news channel we witnessed an ornage sphere flying over the capital during an commercial break on |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2011 | 22:55 U.S. eastern From a third floor balcony facing Northwest, observed a bright red-orange light that I thought at first was a Chine |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2011 | My family and I saw something fly over head silently and without lights. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2011 | Black cylinder zips through Fireworks.at the Washington Monument |
| Washington, DC | 2010 | Red flaming object flying low over Washington DC with no sound |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2010 | Moving star with beam of light |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2010 | two star light object seen minutes apart moving slowly across the sky originating and ending at the same locaiton |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2010 | At 03:18 AM I was called to take a look at a bright object, by a friend. I went outside with my camera and camera platform (tripod) and |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2010 | I saw Two ufo object's over the Washington Monument during the 4th. of July events. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2010 | 2 luminous objects over Washington Monument July 4, 2010 |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2010 | I saw a silver metallic ball fly over my house in Wash., D.C. in broad daylight! |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2010 | luminous craft with halo's in slow flight over the rooftops of the buildings |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2009 | I captured a red sphere like anomaly in 15 frames of 1080 i HD imagery? 5 minutes later and 100 yards from POV we stopped the car and I |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2009 | Glowing orb with sharp turns in Washington ,DC |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2009 | a vectoring orange streak, which at the end of forwards vectoring, makes a sudden 90 degree turn? |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2009 | The object looked like top of a heart shape and was very large and appeared to make no noise and also had no patter |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2009 | I was watching this video on cnn.com look in the far right and watch object fly past sky infront of statue |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2009 | A green colored sphere appeared out of nowhere and fell straight to the ground |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2009 | Sighting of a large flying sphere near our nation's capital. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2008 | UFO flies into frames taken @ US Capitol Building @ 17:06 PM 1080 HD |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2008 | 3 lights moving very smoothley at the capital |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2008 | (egg shaped) anomaly shooting a beam of light towards the ground? |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2008 | Cylindrical object over Washington D.C. viewd from near Smithsonian Metro Station |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2008 | Daytime sighting of bright light changing to stationary white/blue gray annulus and then moved very fast. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2008 | The news caster seen it also, then shut up. I saw it plain as day. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2008 | It was a round white light with tentacles sticking out blue and white, look like a spider. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2007 | Hovering saucer-shaped object, yellow lights, approached by bronze-colored object, triangular or flying wing shape, which hovered near. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2007 | Two UFO's Lingering In The Sky On October 31, Followed By Lights And Surrounded By Green Fog. ((NUFORC Note: Satellites?? PD)) |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2007 | Fireball Over Capitol Hill- Very Long Deep Blue Tail- During Anti- War Rally |
| Washington, d.c. (just outside of), VA | 2006 | It was early morning 6:20 when I saw a cicular object flying over our house. ((NUFORC Note: Possible student report?? PD)) |
| Washington, d.c. (area), DC | 2006 | Sighting recorded Friday November 10th, 8:20AM. I witnessed an object off the lower left side of the plane (South/West). It would be be |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2006 | a formation of dimly glowing objects...maybe birds? Very odd. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2006 | black triangular object with three red lights underneath it flying over DC |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2006 | This is my second report of these Triangular shapped flying objects with red flashing lights. This second sighting compelled me to rep |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2006 | Large object covers the moon |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2006 | ((HOAX??)) It was a very shiny diamond-shaped crystal UFO craft, and it sounded like a high pitched whistle. |
| México, DC | 2005 | This sigthtin occurs a day after a sismologic event in mexico city, the ufo was seen in an area called mexican volcanos, a common area |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2005 | U.F.O. Reported in Washington D.C. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2005 | I witnessed a series of lights traveling from the north (heading south) over the nation's capital from my apartment balcony. At first I |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2004 | circular disc coming to a slight point-like the bottom of a top, only flatter-lights pointing at Andrews Air Force Base or Reagan Nat'l |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2004 | 3-4 crazy star-like objects moving at very high speeds and direction change. defies convention. I saw over D.C! |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2004 | A "formation" of about 20 pale lights moved slowly across the Washington, D.C. evening sky. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2004 | Bright flash of light exploding off the horizon into space - Washington, DC |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2004 | Cigar-shaped craft over Washington, D.C. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2004 | I am not the witness to this sighting. My sister mentioned that a lady in her office saw the UFO along with her husband while in their |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2004 | Lights moving in a counterclockwise oval pattern |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2004 | Craft with bright white lights motionless over Southwest Washington D.C. |
| Washington, d.c., suburbs, VA | 2004 | ((HOAX??)) Disk flys really fast. |
| Na, DC | 2003 | USO seen my military coming up out of the water. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2003 | Bright light that was stationary and moved and light became smaller over a 10 sec period untill it vanashed |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2003 | Chevron-shaped craft gliding over Washington, D.C. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2003 | Light hovering in sky that jerked and wobbled about, surrounded by brief flashes of light |
| Washington, d.c. (georgetown), DC | 2002 | Red white and green rectangular object tilted rhythmically while moving horizontally above the Potomic River. |
| Washington, d.c. (roosevelt island area), DC | 2002 | Red Object Hovering in Sky Over Washington, DC on July 31, 2002 |
| Washington, d.c. to kansas city, DC | 2002 | Metallic cylinder shape hovering at 45 degree angle outside airplane window |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2002 | Three orange triangular lights in the Washington, DC sky during the Leonids. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2002 | Strange, yellowish light spinning behind President Bush's head during 6/6/02 speech |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2002 | 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 |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2002 | Green Object in the Night sky over the nations capital |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2002 | coloured moving lights over washington |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2001 | Delta 434 reported flaming falling object which left a visible contrail. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2001 | I was on my way to Washinton D.C. Getting to the entrance to the city i was listening to my radio, my friend was driving and i was jus |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2001 | Silver ball shape over DC. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2001 | Three lights in a triangular formation being followed by a smaller light. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2001 | Small orbs circle the pentagon on Sept 11th |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2000 | Saw dancing metallic balls high in the sky over the Mall that moved unlike any plane I've EVER seen before. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2000 | Unusual Contrail..had evenly spaced lines across the entire length of the contrail |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2000 | Near end of 1AM fireworks while standing outside Metro station in DC observed at least 5 cylindrical things moving at high speed across |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2000 | I observed two small lights cross the night sky from approximately Orion to the North Star. They appeared to be chasing one another. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 2000 | UFO appearing behind BBC correspondent on Breakfast News during US Election coverage (November 2000) |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 1999 | Black motionless disk spotted in the evening above Washington, D.C. |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 1999 | Intensely fast green glowing fireball crossed the sky from nw to se over the Washington DC beltway and went below the viewable horizon. |
| Washington, d.c. (capitol hill), DC | 1998 | Visiting the capital and city, did not see object at all while taking the pictures, object was unseen at the time. Took two pictures, |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 1997 | While on vacation in Washington, DC, standing in front of the White House, my 8 yr old son captured something very strange on our video |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 1997 | Elongated and flattened " dome," with 1 bright light, hovers and darts like dragonfly, D.C. Mall, July 4th 1997 |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 1995 | Million Man March had visitors? |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 1974 | Roiling, red/orange disk traverses nation's capitol at supersonic speed, near White House...never reported (1974). |
| Bagsværd (denmark), DC | 1967 | I WAS CARVING,THEN SUDDENDLY MY LITTLE GIRL AND SON SAID THATS NOT AN AIRPLANE, SO MY WIFE ASKED ME WHAT IT WAS..... THE CRAFT CAME STR |
| Washington, d.c. (area), DC | 1962 | My brother.At a family gathering in the early 1960s when my brother, who served in a special part of the armed forces, revealed tha |
| Washington, d.c., DC | 1953 | Four of us saw a ball of light come out of the sky, circle a plane then shoot off out of sight. |