UFOMYST
CaseFireball2017

Lanham, MD, USA

Driving home from Thanksgiving dinner I saw lights falling from the sky looked like falling stars. ((anonymous report))

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-11-23
Where
Lanham, MD, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
—
Geo
38.969, -76.863 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lanham-md-2017-065219
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

  • Lanham, MD has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 94 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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