UFOMYST
CaseFlash2020

Bel Air, MD, USA

I was sitting on my deck looking up at the moon when suddenly there was an orange flash, this continued in intervals of 3-4 seconds thr

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-06-29
Where
Bel Air, MD, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
39.536, -76.348 · exact
Slug
flash-over-bel-air-md-2020-12b453
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 32 documented reports from Bel Air, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 83 sightings in 2020.
  • Flash sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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