In Booth v. State, 306 Md. 313, 508 A.2d 976 (1996), the Court of Appeals surveyed previous Maryland cases, scholarly works and authority from other jurisdictions, id. at 317-23, and concluded: As observed by the Advisory Committee to the Federal Rules, the "excited utterance" and "present sense impression" exceptions "overlap, though based on somewhat different theories." Advisory Committee Note, Fed.R.Evid. 803(1). The underlying rationale of the two exceptions are similar, i.e., both preserve the benefit of spontaneity in the narrow span of time before a declarant has an opportunity to reflect and fabricate. We conclude that the "present sense impression" exception to the hearsay rule rests upon a firm foundation of trustworthiness, and we adopt it in the form in which it appears at Fed.R.Evid. 803(1). (Id. 306 Md. at 324.) Fed.R.Evid. 803(1) is identical to Maryland Rule 5-803(b)(1). The Court proceeded "to a consideration of practical problems that may be encountered in the application of this exception." Id. The Court of Appeals identified three such problems: Initially, we consider the question of requisite spontaneity. Although statements offered under this exception will usually be those made at the time an event is being perceived, we recognize that precise contemporaneity is not always possible, and at times there may be a slight delay in converting observations into speech. However, because the presumed reliability of a statement of present sense impression flows from the fact of spontaneity, the time interval between observation and utterance must be very short. The appropriate inquiry is whether, considering the surrounding circumstances, sufficient time elapsed to have permitted reflective thought. See McCORMICK ON EVIDENCE 298, at 862 (3d ed. E. Cleary 1984). In the words of Professor Jon Waltz, "absent some special corroborative circumstance, there should be no delay beyond an acceptable hiatus between perception and the cerebellum's construction of an uncalculated verbal description." Waltz, THE PRESENT SENSE IMPRESSION EXCEPTION TO THE RULE AGAINST HEARSAY: ORIGINS AND ATTRIBUTES, 66 Iowa L.Rev. 869, 880 (1981). 306 Md. at 324.