UFOMYST
CaseCylinder2015

Beltsville, MD, USA

I was sitting at my machine, and out of the side of my eye, I can see very bright lights.

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (89 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-01-29
Where
Beltsville, MD, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
7 minutes
Geo
39.035, -76.907 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-beltsville-md-2015-5c6bdc
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 →

In context

  • Beltsville, MD has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 114 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.

Report

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