UFOMYST
CaseOval2013

Silver Spring, MD, USA

There were lights on one object.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-07-23
Where
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
38.991, -77.026 · exact
Slug
oval-over-silver-spring-md-2013-482e16
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.
  • 2013 brought 115 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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