College Park, MD, USA
Disc-shape with another smaller disk in the middle with red circle lights
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-18
- Where
- College Park, MD, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.981, -76.937 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-college-park-md-2020-473109
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
College Park, MD logged 4 reports in the single month of August 2020.
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from College Park, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 83 sightings in 2020.
- Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2020s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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