Olney, MD, USA
UFO with "tentacles" hovering in Olney, Maryland. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of celestial body?? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2011-07-13
- Where
- Olney, MD, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 39.153, -77.067 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-olney-md-2011-cd4e6f
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
- Olney, MD shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 74 reports came from Maryland in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Report
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