UFOMYST
CaseOval2016

District Heights, MD, USA

Very bright object shining like a star but in an oval shape, and moving extremely fast, without a smoke trail.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-10
Where
District Heights, MD, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
38.858, -76.889 · exact
Slug
oval-over-district-heights-md-2016-9a9208
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • District Heights, MD has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 97 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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