UFOMYST
CaseFormation2012

Silver Spring, MD, USA

For a 15 minute period, 30 to 40 crafts were seen. 15 to 20 craft flew in a formation and vanished in the sky. Then 12-15 craft flew

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-03
Where
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
38.991, -77.026 · exact
Slug
formation-over-silver-spring-md-2012-35a686
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

  • Silver Spring, MD has 33 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 110 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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