CaseFireball2007
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Falling object with strange green glow, like a meteor.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (54 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-11-08
- Where
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 Seconds
- Geo
- 38.991, -77.026 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-silver-spring-md-2007-6e3562
Wave
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 33 documented reports from Silver Spring, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 43 sightings in 2007.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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