UFOMYST
CaseCigar2015

Derwood, MD, USA

Slow moving cigar shaped UFO with orange and red lights.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-07-23
Where
Derwood, MD, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
39.117, -77.161 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-derwood-md-2015-856e00
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…

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In context

  • Derwood, MD shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 114 reports came from Maryland in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 1.9% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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