CaseFireball2004

Williamsport, MD, USA

Green light emmitted from sky in Western Maryland ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-12-11
Where
Williamsport, MD, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
6 seconds
Geo
39.601, -77.821 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-williamsport-md-2004-b744b2
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

  • Williamsport, MD shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 44 reports came from Maryland in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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