CaseLight1974
Cumberland, MD, USA
wife & I were coming down the long curve on US 40 east of cumberland Md. Damned comp wouldnt accept time of 1730, just starting to get
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-09-01
- Where
- Cumberland, MD, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 min
- Geo
- 39.653, -78.763 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-cumberland-md-1974-1d63f2
In context
- Cumberland, MD shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from Maryland in 1974.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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