Frostburg, MD, USA
I was driving on I-68 on top of a mountain a blue flash shot across the sky and was out of sight in a split second.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (115 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-29
- Where
- Frostburg, MD, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 39.658, -78.928 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-frostburg-md-2017-ede107
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
- Frostburg, MD shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 94 reports came from Maryland in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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