Towson, MD, USA
Green sphere over I-83 stops, hovers then takes off to the west. ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax, we believe. PD)).
Report quality: Low1/100
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 (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-12-13
- Where
- Towson, MD, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 39.401, -76.602 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-towson-md-2012-fd1706
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
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In context
- This is one of 22 reports logged in Towson, MD.
- This case is one of 110 Maryland reports filed in 2012.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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