West River, MD, USA
It was the size of large star, egg shapped moving up, down,zigzaging sideways and glowing a yellowish amber
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-11
- Where
- West River, MD, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- two min.
- Geo
- 38.850, -76.596 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-west-river-md-2004-2b8b55
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
- West River, MD has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 44 reports from Maryland.
- The 2000s skewed 1.1% egg reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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