Delmar, DE, USA
((HOAX??)) Noticed a brighter object coming off the E horizon looked to have orange glow it was moving upwards quickly.
Report quality: Low25/100
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 (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2016-12-30
- Where
- Delmar, DE, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 1/2
- Geo
- 38.457, -75.577 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-delmar-de-2016-0937c0
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
- Delmar, DE shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 19 reports came from Delaware in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.