District Heights, MD, USA
About 10:15 pm December 25th, I witness a circular shaped craft with 2 very dim lights rotating in a circular motion under the craft.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-12-25
- Where
- District Heights, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.858, -76.889 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-district-heights-md-2011-a258fc
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
- District Heights, MD has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 74 reports from Maryland.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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