La Plata, MD, USA
A yellow sphere circle twice and the zoom out to disappear. It traveled from Northeast to the Southwest
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-12-27
- Where
- La Plata, MD, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 38.529, -76.975 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-la-plata-md-2020-704eca
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 7 documented reports from La Plata, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 83 sightings in 2020.
- Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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