UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2012

Potomac, MD, USA

I and girlfriend noticed a bright object in the sky around 10:45.

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-12-14
Where
Potomac, MD, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
40 minutes
Geo
39.018, -77.209 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-potomac-md-2012-d63920
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…

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In context

  • One of 6 documented reports from Potomac, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 110 sightings in 2012.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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