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CaseTeardrop2020

Smyrna, DE, USA

My little brother was gazing in the sky and saw something flying in the atmosphere and told me to look to my surprise when I looked was

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-06-08
Where
Smyrna, DE, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
45 minutes
Geo
39.300, -75.605 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-smyrna-de-2020-21e22f
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

  • Smyrna, DE has 7 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 27 reports from Delaware.
  • The 2020s skewed 0.6% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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