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CaseSphere2014

Mount Rainier, MD, USA

I was laying on my truck bed when I saw a blue sphere appeared in the sky about the size of a star...

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-07-21
Where
Mount Rainier, MD, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
38.941, -76.965 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-mount-rainier-md-2014-8133e8
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Mount Rainier, MD has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 147 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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