CaseLight2012

Bel Air, MD, USA

Bright white orb traveling fast over Bel Air

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-10-13
Where
Bel Air, MD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5-8 seconds
Geo
39.536, -76.348 · exact
Slug
light-over-bel-air-md-2012-56070b
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

  • Bel Air, MD has 32 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 110 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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