Mardela springs, MD, USA
((HOAX??)) 1 mile wide UFO, with looked like fighters chasing it, we saw 4 some orangeish lights.
Report quality: Low21/100
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
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2008-03-05
- Where
- Mardela springs, MD, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 38.460, -75.759 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-mardela-springs-md-2008-65cd4f
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
- Mardela springs, MD shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 65 reports came from Maryland in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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