Aviation observation — Anacostia Naval Air Station, Washington D.C. — 1948-04-30

On 1948-04-30, an aviation observation was reported at or near Anacostia Naval Air Station, Washington D.C., United States. The catalogue lists the aircraft and observers as a US Navy aircraft pilot. Its time field reads 10:15LT. A yellow sphere travelled northward at an estimated 100 miles per hour. Source: Dominique F. Weinstein, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings (NARCAP TR-04, February 2001), PDF page 10, table row 13. Approximate GeoNames populated-locality centroid; not the reported observation point. Exact source-country and named-place alias match. GeoNames CC BY 4.0, https://www.geonames.org/4140963