CaseLight2016
Salisbury, MD, USA
Bright light accompanied by smaller lights seen over Salisbury, MD.
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-05-19
- Where
- Salisbury, MD, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 38.361, -75.599 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-salisbury-md-2016-a70be6
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Salisbury, MD.
- This case is one of 97 Maryland reports filed in 2016.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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