CaseTeardrop2008

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
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…

Local cluster

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 days

Report

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