Ellicott City, MD, USA
Too slow to be a plane, too fast to be a star and stayed within a small radius, and want to know if there are other reports.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-11-16
- Where
- Ellicott City, MD, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- one hour
- Geo
- 39.267, -76.798 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-ellicott-city-md-2004-093179
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Ellicott City, MD has 16 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 44 reports from Maryland.
- The 2000s skewed 2.7% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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