CaseFireball2002
Ocean City, MD, USA
UFO hovers...changes direction...hovers.....repeats pattern near Ocean City, MD in Summer of 2002
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-15
- Where
- Ocean City, MD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 38.337, -75.085 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ocean-city-md-2002-76b9be
In context
- Ocean City, MD shows up 46 times across the archive.
- 52 reports came from Maryland in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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