UFOMYST
CaseLight2018

Halethorpe, MD, USA

((HOAX??)) 4 horizontal balls of light. ((NUFORC Note: Date of incident is flawed. Hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low2/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2018-03-22
Where
Halethorpe, MD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 hour
Geo
39.240, -76.680 · exact
Slug
light-over-halethorpe-md-2018-8c9b9d
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…

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In context

  • Halethorpe, MD shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 54 reports came from Maryland in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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