Clarksburg, MD, USA
Looked up and noticed a cylindrical object moving horizontal in the sky with what almost looked like a flame like tail.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-03-22
- Where
- Clarksburg, MD, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.239, -77.279 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-clarksburg-md-2021-2011d7
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
- Clarksburg, MD has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 39 reports from Maryland.
- The 2020s skewed 3.5% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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