Rockville, MD, USA
Went outside due to a low flying military helicopter seconds later at a much higher altitude a large fireball appeared falling towards
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-02-09
- Where
- Rockville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 39.084, -77.153 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-rockville-md-2014-301b8a
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…
In context
- This is one of 36 reports logged in Rockville, MD.
- This case is one of 147 Maryland reports filed in 2014.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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