CaseDisk1996

Chesapeake Bay (over; inflight/from Air France jet), MD, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Chesapeake Bay (over; inflight/from Air France jet), MD, USA
Start: 1996-06-14
Location: Chesapeake Bay (over; inflight/from Air France jet), MD, USA

White disk flew underneath jetliner as we were descending towards Dulles Intl. We were at about 10-12,000 feet according to cabin monit

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location geocoded approximately
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1996-06-14
Where: Chesapeake Bay (over; inflight/from Air France jet), MD, USA
Shape: Disk
Duration: 5 to 10 sec
Geo: 37.962, -76.178 · fallback
Slug: disk-over-chesapeake-bay-over-inflight-from-air-france-jet-md-1996-f912a1

In context

One of 1 documented reports from Chesapeake Bay (over; inflight/from Air France jet), MD in the UFOMYST archive.
Maryland logged 19 sightings in 1996.
Disk sightings ran at 7.1% during the 1990s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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