CaseDiamond2020
Elkridge, MD, USA
Approached by diamond shaped white light on I-95 alone at night.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-09
- Where
- Elkridge, MD, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 39.213, -76.714 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-elkridge-md-2020-025c26
Wave
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 Elkridge, MD.
- This case is one of 83 Maryland reports filed in 2020.
- Diamond craft made up 1.1% of 2020s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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