CaseChevron2015

Cumberland, MD, USA

A bright V-shaped stationary object in the northwest night sky.

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: 1350s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-02-23
Where
Cumberland, MD, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
20-25 minutes
Geo
39.653, -78.763 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-cumberland-md-2015-f9767a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Cumberland, MD has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 114 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.1% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.

Report

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