Rockville, MD, USA
Two small white/metallic objects about 30 to 40 degrees below and equidistant to the sun
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-30
- Where
- Rockville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 39.084, -77.153 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-rockville-md-2016-458e11
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
- Rockville, MD shows up 36 times across the archive.
- 97 reports came from Maryland in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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