Greenbelt, MD, USA
Intense, pulsating, humming sound heard in Greenbelt Park around 3AM, Labor Day morning.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-05
- Where
- Greenbelt, MD, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- Several minutes
- Geo
- 39.005, -76.876 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-greenbelt-md-2016-9f33b9
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 9 documented reports from Greenbelt, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 97 sightings in 2016.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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