Wheaton, MD, USA
I was driving East on University Blvd. in Wheaton Md. between Georgia ave. and Viersmill Rd. and saw a fireball with a tail going in a
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-05-13
- Where
- Wheaton, MD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 SECONDS
- Geo
- 39.040, -77.055 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-wheaton-md-2008-1e97f2
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 8 reports logged in Wheaton, MD.
- This case is one of 65 Maryland reports filed in 2008.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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