UFOMYST
CaseOval2012

Ocean City, MD, USA

Bright round orange object appeared in sky above Ocean City, MD

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-07-14
Where
Ocean City, MD, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
38.337, -75.085 · exact
Slug
oval-over-ocean-city-md-2012-e77ba7
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Ocean City, MD logged 3 reports in the single month of July 2012.

In context

  • One of 46 documented reports from Ocean City, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 110 sightings in 2012.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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