UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Silver Spring, MD, USA

White transparent circular shape following airplane.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-06-19
Where
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15-30 seconds
Geo
38.991, -77.026 · exact
Slug
circle-over-silver-spring-md-2016-48f495
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

  • This is one of 33 reports logged in Silver Spring, MD.
  • This case is one of 97 Maryland reports filed in 2016.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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