CaseChevron2016

Laurel, MD, USA

I was laying in bed. I saw some weird craft hovering very low above ground. It was chevron/ square shaped. Had 4 lights. Moved very fas

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-20
Where
Laurel, MD, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
6 seconds
Geo
39.099, -76.848 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-laurel-md-2016-a8e34d
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

  • Laurel, MD shows up 24 times across the archive.
  • 97 reports came from Maryland in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Report

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