UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2008

Knoxville, MD, USA

I looked up to see teardrop shaped light , back dropped by a mountain, as it shot towards the ground at a 45 degree angle.

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-11-25
Where
Knoxville, MD, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
39.327, -77.664 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-knoxville-md-2008-659ed7
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Knoxville, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 65 sightings in 2008.
  • Teardrop sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.9%).

Report

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