Sykesville, MD, USA
large bodied very bright silver craft with no wings, shaped like a pill and no exhaust trailings. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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 (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-10-17
- Where
- Sykesville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 39.374, -76.968 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-sykesville-md-2017-a789a7
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
- Sykesville, MD shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 94 reports came from Maryland in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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