Ellicott City, MD, USA
1 shinny disk shaped metallic object that was not moving in the sky. It disappeared out of thin air.
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-09-10
- Where
- Ellicott City, MD, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 39.267, -76.798 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-ellicott-city-md-2004-315520
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 shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 44 reports came from Maryland in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.