Knoxville, MD, USA
I looked up to see teardrop shaped light , back dropped by a mountain, as it shot towards the ground at a 45 degree angle.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-11-25
- Where
- Knoxville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.327, -77.664 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-knoxville-md-2008-659ed7
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 Knoxville, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 65 sightings in 2008.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.9%).
Report
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