Frederick, MD, USA
A formation of lights in a checkmark pattern moving very fast across the sky. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-03-22
- Where
- Frederick, MD, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.414, -77.411 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-frederick-md-2017-05a054
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
- Frederick, MD shows up 37 times across the archive.
- 94 reports came from Maryland in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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