Grantsville, MD, USA
Bright hovering triangle with small light blasts that were streaking to and from it .
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-19
- Where
- Grantsville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.695, -79.151 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-grantsville-md-2020-fc9383
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Grantsville, MD.
- This case is one of 83 Maryland reports filed in 2020.
- Triangle craft made up 6.2% of 2020s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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