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
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
- 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 daysReport
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