Bethesda, MD, USA
Saucer flying low and fast over Betheda/Rockville area in broad daylight.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-15
- Where
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 38.981, -77.100 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-bethesda-md-2013-e2fd57
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
- Bethesda, MD has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 115 reports from Maryland.
- The 2010s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Report
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