CaseSphere2017

Elkton, MD, USA

Seen 11 big red lights flying one behind the other. They looked like they rode up from the ground from a distance.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-03-18
Where
Elkton, MD, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
39.607, -75.833 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-elkton-md-2017-39c07f
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…

In context

  • Elkton, MD has 20 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 94 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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