UFOMYST
CaseDisk2019

Bethesda, MD, USA

Four lighted objects in the sky, initially stacked on on top of the other, three of which moved into a V formation one trailing

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-12-23
Where
Bethesda, MD, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
38.981, -77.100 · exact
Slug
disk-over-bethesda-md-2019-9379b6
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

  • One of 11 documented reports from Bethesda, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 70 sightings in 2019.
  • Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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