West River, MD, USA
The sighting was of a small round white object, darting in out of the light pink clouds.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-11
- Where
- West River, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1min
- Geo
- 38.850, -76.596 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-west-river-md-2004-385d70
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
- One of 2 documented reports from West River, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 44 sightings in 2004.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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