Greenbelt, MD, USA
Daylight spherical object projects vertical electrical blue column to four times its diameter downward while over NASA Goddard SFC..
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-06
- Where
- Greenbelt, MD, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- ~ four minutes
- Geo
- 39.005, -76.876 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-greenbelt-md-2004-a3bf80
Part of a wave
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
- Greenbelt, MD shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 44 reports came from Maryland in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 2.8% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.