CaseFormation2015

Ellicott City, MD, USA

Two white rectangular objects hovering in sky just before sunset Two white rectangular objects about 20 - 25 degrees above the eastern

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-10-23
Where
Ellicott City, MD, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
Several hours
Geo
39.267, -76.798 · exact
Slug
formation-over-ellicott-city-md-2015-c3cf2a
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

  • Ellicott City, MD shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 114 reports came from Maryland in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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