UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Belstville, MD, USA

After I park my car, I noticed a red object very high, first I thought it was a planet, then I realized that this object was moving at

Report quality: Moderate43/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-04-16
Where
Belstville, MD, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
one minute
Geo
—
Slug
fireball-over-belstville-md-2004-f5f59c
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 →

In context

  • Belstville, MD shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 44 reports came from Maryland in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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