CaseFlash2020

Cobb island, MD, USA

Seen flashes in the sky, first one super bright then dimmed after but there was no sound and a completely clear night no clouds.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-14
Where
Cobb island, MD, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
38.258, -76.844 · exact
Slug
flash-over-cobb-island-md-2020-f36805
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…

In context

  • One of 3 documented reports from Cobb island, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 83 sightings in 2020.
  • Flash sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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