Baltimore City, MD, USA
While at the lightrail, near M&T Bank Stadium, my wife and I noticed a kind of bright red light that would flash to white, then repeat
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.
- Duration parsed: 840s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-23
- Where
- Baltimore City, MD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 14 minutes
- Geo
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- Slug
- fireball-over-baltimore-city-md-2016-d53428
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 7 reports logged in Baltimore City, MD.
- This case is one of 97 Maryland reports filed in 2016.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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