UFOMYST
CaseCigar2017

Silver Spring, MD, USA

6/4/17 6.30 pm, Silver Spring, MD, the objects 10/11 were floating quietly very transparent like nothing inside.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-06-04
Where
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
38.991, -77.026 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-silver-spring-md-2017-1259b4
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Silver Spring, MD in June 2017 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Silver Spring, MD has 33 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 94 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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