UFOMYST
CaseLight2004

Baltimore, MD, USA

BRIGHT LIGHT SHOT THROUGH THE SKY IN MANY DIRECTIONS AND SHOT UP INTO SKY UNTIL UNABLE TO SEE.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-19
Where
Baltimore, MD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 SECONDS
Geo
39.290, -76.612 · exact
Slug
light-over-baltimore-md-2004-74b894
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Baltimore, MD shows up 147 times across the archive.
  • 44 reports came from Maryland in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.