Mount Rainer, MD, USA
Strange cloud-like, dumbell shaped object with spinning rings noted in the NW sky ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Low29/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2004-08-31
- Where
- Mount Rainer, MD, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 10-15 minutes
- Geo
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- Slug
- changing-over-mount-rainer-md-2004-3c0e19
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 1 reports logged in Mount Rainer, MD.
- This case is one of 44 Maryland reports filed in 2004.
- Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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