Kent Island, MD, USA
silver cylinder craft in sky appearing to watch a lightening storm, white fin on it, right off of Kent Island
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-26
- Where
- Kent Island, MD, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 38.949, -76.315 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-kent-island-md-2011-9632d0
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Kent Island, MD.
- This case is one of 74 Maryland reports filed in 2011.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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