UFOMYST
CaseLight2005

Bethesda, MD, USA

I saw a moving lighting object in the sky from 9th floor balcony in Bethesda Maryland. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising light?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-11-20
Where
Bethesda, MD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
more than 3 hours
Geo
38.981, -77.100 · exact
Slug
light-over-bethesda-md-2005-3c8735
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

  • This is one of 11 reports logged in Bethesda, MD.
  • This case is one of 40 Maryland reports filed in 2005.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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