CaseLight1997
Owings Mills, MD, USA
Bright white object observed to the Westat about treetop level, gained altitude andflew off silently
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-03-26
- Where
- Owings Mills, MD, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.420, -76.780 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-owings-mills-md-1997-1fff46
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from Owings Mills, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 13 sightings in 1997.
- Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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