CaseCylinder2012

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
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…

Local cluster

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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