Hanover, MD, USA
we were celebrating my 35th birthday, (having a cookout) and at about 5 PM Eastern Time, myself and 2 other people witnessed a "disk" m
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-22
- Where
- Hanover, MD, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 Seconds
- Geo
- 39.193, -76.724 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-hanover-md-2006-60b7c1
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
- Hanover, MD shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 33 reports came from Maryland in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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