CaseCircle2012
Sykesville, MD, USA
Weird orange/red balloon lights on New Year's Eve in Syskesville
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (64 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-01
- Where
- Sykesville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 39.374, -76.968 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-sykesville-md-2012-8a04ce
Wave
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
- One of 15 documented reports from Sykesville, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 110 sightings in 2012.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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