Pasadena, MD, USA
12 objects, with reddish orange lights, low in the cloudy sky on Christmas Eve
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-12-24
- Where
- Pasadena, MD, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.119, -76.571 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-pasadena-md-2014-d57fc0
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…
Local cluster
Pasadena, MD logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2014.
In context
- One of 27 documented reports from Pasadena, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 147 sightings in 2014.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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