Sykesville, MD, USA
Several bright lights clustered and seemed stationary except one of them moved fast to join the group.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-08-16
- Where
- Sykesville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 39.374, -76.968 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sykesville-md-2014-c8af44
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
- Sykesville, MD shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 147 reports came from Maryland in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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