Churchton, MD, USA
On 2/27/14 at 3:35 AM saw an object made up of round lights which formed a circle of light with rectangle shape in middle of it.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-27
- Where
- Churchton, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.803, -76.537 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-churchton-md-2014-cfe682
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Churchton, MD.
- This case is one of 147 Maryland reports filed in 2014.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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