CaseChanging2004

Bladensburg, MD, USA

Object was CigarShaped, very bright leaving short ,thin exhaust vapors. It moved at different speeds could stop on a Dime.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-02-25
Where
Bladensburg, MD, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
1/2 Hour
Geo
38.939, -76.934 · exact
Slug
changing-over-bladensburg-md-2004-fddaf7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Bladensburg, MD.
  • This case is one of 44 Maryland reports filed in 2004.
  • Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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