Ellicott City, MD, USA
After the Columbia fireworks display a bright red round object was seen traveling in level flight from south to north, the object was m
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-01-01
- Where
- Ellicott City, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15
- Geo
- 39.267, -76.798 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-ellicott-city-md-2007-5bb58b
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
- This is one of 16 reports logged in Ellicott City, MD.
- This case is one of 43 Maryland reports filed in 2007.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.