Other Flying · Chesapeake Bay, Maryland · 2002
MD-2002ID case-13599f3999Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- 2002to the year
- Where
- Chesapeake Bay, Marylandto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A pilot flying over the Chesapeake Bay reported seeing an unidentified flying creature with an enormous wingspan and tentacle-like appendages.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, 23459, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 2002
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-13599f3999
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- The Snallygaster: Maryland's Mythical Monster from the Skies - Oddity Hive
Reddit · 2023-10-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.