CaseChanging2011
Westminster, MD, USA
Intensely bright, crescent shape to round in SE night sky
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 840s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-05-28
- Where
- Westminster, MD, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 14 mins
- Geo
- 39.575, -76.996 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-westminster-md-2011-b5e42f
Wave
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
- Westminster, MD has 19 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 74 reports from Maryland.
- The 2010s skewed 2.4% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.