Silver Spring, MD, USA
birght satellite -like nocturnal light with a distinctly orange color wher no satellite should have been.
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-09-04
- Where
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4-5minutes
- Geo
- 38.991, -77.026 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-silver-spring-md-2006-5b12d9
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
- Silver Spring, MD has 33 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 33 reports from Maryland.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.