UFOMYST
CaseCircle2010

Silver Spring, MD, USA

Five to eight orange circles in the sky.

Report quality: Moderate52/100

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
  • Brief witness text (40 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2010-12-02
Where
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Approximately five minute
Geo
38.991, -77.026 · exact
Slug
circle-over-silver-spring-md-2010-506fe9
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…

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In context

  • Silver Spring, MD shows up 33 times across the archive.
  • 50 reports came from Maryland in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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