UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Ocean City, MD, USA

UFO during sunrise. ((NUFORC Note: Lens flares, caused by pointing a camera toward the Sun. PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (19 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-08-08
Where
Ocean City, MD, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
~2 minutes
Geo
38.337, -75.085 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ocean-city-md-2016-d24425
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

Ocean City, MD logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2016.

In context

  • One of 46 documented reports from Ocean City, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 97 sightings in 2016.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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