Baltimore, MD, USA
craft observed crossing Baltimore in Canton area observed from Fleet St traveling east/west
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-03
- Where
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 60 secs
- Geo
- 39.290, -76.612 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-baltimore-md-2008-dc7686
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 6 Baltimore, MD reports filed in August 2008.
In context
- Baltimore, MD shows up 147 times across the archive.
- 65 reports came from Maryland in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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