Frederick, MD, USA
Yesterday evening near Frederick, Md. Was in the sky for about 10 mins and the tail got longer. ((NUFORC Note: Contrail. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2014-10-25
- Where
- Frederick, MD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5-10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.414, -77.411 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-frederick-md-2014-d17f6d
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
- One of 37 documented reports from Frederick, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 147 sightings in 2014.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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