Pikesville, MD, USA
The object moved from left to right. start and stop it did slow down just stopped.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-01
- Where
- Pikesville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.374, -76.722 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-pikesville-md-2016-733ff5
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 6 reports logged in Pikesville, MD.
- This case is one of 97 Maryland reports filed in 2016.
- Cone craft made up 0.4% of 2010s reports, vs 0.4% 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.