College Park, MD, USA
Large disc shaped aircraft with lights spotted above me
Report quality: Moderate62/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-18
- Where
- College Park, MD, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.981, -76.937 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-college-park-md-2020-43fb90
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of College Park, MD in August 2020 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- College Park, MD has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 83 reports from Maryland.
- The 2020s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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