UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Preston, MD, USA

Dim looking star like object traveling much faster than a plane and very high up, changed direction quickly 3 times then vanished.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-17
Where
Preston, MD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
38.713, -75.910 · exact
Slug
light-over-preston-md-2016-cac048
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

  • Preston, MD shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 97 reports came from Maryland in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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