College Park, MD, USA
First noticed one blue-white sphere in the sky, moving in and out of the night clouds. Then there were two. A friend and I watched for
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-23
- Where
- College Park, MD, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes+
- Geo
- 38.981, -76.937 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-college-park-md-2019-599aaf
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
- One of 16 documented reports from College Park, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 70 sightings in 2019.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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