CaseLight1979
Wheaton, MD, USA
Single bright light that flew across horizon very fast, in a straight line, leaving no tail or noise behind.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-06-01
- Where
- Wheaton, MD, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 39.040, -77.055 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-wheaton-md-1979-e79c25
In context
- Wheaton, MD shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Maryland in 1979.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.