UFOMYST
CaseFormation2008

Takoma Park, MD, USA

String formation of five reddish lights flew south over DC area on a clear, cold December night (11PM); too fast to be aircraft.

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-07
Where
Takoma Park, MD, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
7 seconds
Geo
38.978, -77.007 · exact
Slug
formation-over-takoma-park-md-2008-cc9715
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

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Takoma Park, MD.
  • This case is one of 65 Maryland reports filed in 2008.
  • Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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