Delmar, DE, USA
Noticed a brighter object coming off the eastern horizon looked to have orange glow it was moving upwards quickly I went got my junk te
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- 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-2016-7bf8ea
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 3 documented reports from Delmar, DE in the UFOMYST archive.
- Delaware logged 19 sightings in 2016.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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