CaseDiamond2021
Pylesville, MD, USA
Diamond shaped bright light aircraft seen slowly moving
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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 (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-07
- Where
- Pylesville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.690, -76.373 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-pylesville-md-2021-de3a05
Wave
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
- Pylesville, MD has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 39 reports from Maryland.
- The 2020s skewed 1.1% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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