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CaseSphere2021

Westminster, MD, USA

Noticed a white light expanding and contracting approximately 300 yards from my window. It approached my direction at around 500 feet a

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-16
Where
Westminster, MD, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
39.575, -76.996 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-westminster-md-2021-c44434
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  • Westminster, MD shows up 19 times across the archive.
  • 39 reports came from Maryland in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

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