West Ocean City, MD, USA
I saw something that was about double the size of a hang glider and about 150-200 ft off the ground made no noise and was moving
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-01-15
- Where
- West Ocean City, MD, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 38.331, -75.107 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-west-ocean-city-md-2019-3db792
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 2 reports logged in West Ocean City, MD.
- This case is one of 70 Maryland reports filed in 2019.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
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