UFOMYST
CaseOther2004

Boonsboro, MD, USA

Meteor, Comet, Craft breakup. ((NUFORC Note: Result of earlier missile launch. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-08-31
Where
Boonsboro, MD, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
35 minutes
Geo
39.506, -77.652 · exact
Slug
other-over-boonsboro-md-2004-3d8d6d
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

  • Boonsboro, MD shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 44 reports came from Maryland in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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