CaseFireball2016

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
Slug
fireball-over-baltimore-city-md-2016-d53428
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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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