CaseSphere2010
Glen Echo, MD, USA
Stationary metallic like sphere over the Washington DC area
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (59 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-08-07
- Where
- Glen Echo, MD, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Geo
- 38.969, -77.142 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-glen-echo-md-2010-26efe2
Wave
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 1 documented reports from Glen Echo, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 50 sightings in 2010.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 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.