CaseDisk2008

Fort Washington, MD, USA

Twinkling multicolor "star" that moved across the sky after being idle for over 10 minutes or more

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-27
Where
Fort Washington, MD, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
15-20 minutes
Geo
38.707, -77.023 · exact
Slug
disk-over-fort-washington-md-2008-0d2d65
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…

In context

  • Fort Washington, MD has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 65 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

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.