Ocean City, MD, USA
In the night sky while sitting on deck in Ocean City, MD overlooking the Atlantic Ocean with my 40 year old daughter, we saw a cylindri
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-04
- Where
- Ocean City, MD, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 15-20 seconds
- Geo
- 38.337, -75.085 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-ocean-city-md-2012-d37826
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…
Local cluster
July 2012 was a busy month for Ocean City, MD: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 46 reports logged in Ocean City, MD.
- This case is one of 110 Maryland reports filed in 2012.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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