UFOMYST
CaseFormation2017

District Heights, MD, USA

((HOAX)) 4 Lights seen in formation then 3 light combined in to one leaving just 2 light. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Low21/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2017-01-05
Where
District Heights, MD, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30
Geo
38.858, -76.889 · exact
Slug
formation-over-district-heights-md-2017-9bf574
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…

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from District Heights, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 94 sightings in 2017.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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