UFOMYST
CaseCigar2014

Clarksburg, MD, USA

A ball of orange light appeared in the night sky, may be a possible meteor.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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)
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-01-13
Where
Clarksburg, MD, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
3-4 seconds
Geo
39.239, -77.279 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-clarksburg-md-2014-f113ce
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

  • Clarksburg, MD has 8 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 147 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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