UFOMYST
CaseDisk2020

College Park, MD, USA

Low flying disk shaped object with red lights in a circular pattern and a bulge coming down in the middle, sounded like a loud aircraft

Report quality: High73/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 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
1 minute
Geo
38.981, -76.937 · exact
Slug
disk-over-college-park-md-2020-bd1658
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

August 2020 was a busy month for College Park, MD: 4 separate reports.

In context

  • This is one of 16 reports logged in College Park, MD.
  • This case is one of 83 Maryland reports filed in 2020.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2020s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.