UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Silver Spring, MD, USA

Four round white lights in a large, square configuration seen through the clouds. ((NUFORC Note: Rocket launch. PD))

Report quality: Moderate53/100

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-06-29
Where
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
38.991, -77.026 · exact
Slug
light-over-silver-spring-md-2017-060ca7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

Silver Spring, MD logged 4 reports in the single month of June 2017.

In context

  • One of 33 documented reports from Silver Spring, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 94 sightings in 2017.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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