Columbia, MD, USA
Four of us having dinner on our back deck in Columbia MD last night saw 17 or 18 silent orange balls approach our house from the north
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-05-11
- Where
- Columbia, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10-15
- Geo
- 39.240, -76.839 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-columbia-md-2012-4abfd3
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
- This is one of 27 reports logged in Columbia, MD.
- This case is one of 110 Maryland reports filed in 2012.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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