UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Philadelphia/Baltimore (between), MD, USA

Large ball of bright light shot overhead and disappeared over the trees on the distant horizon.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (95 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-10-19
Where
Philadelphia/Baltimore (between), MD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2-3 seconds
Geo
39.290, -76.612 · exact
Slug
light-over-philadelphia-baltimore-between-md-2008-9dbade
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

  • Philadelphia/Baltimore (between), MD shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 65 reports came from Maryland in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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