UFOMYST
CaseFlash2013

Ellicott City, MD, USA

Bright White Light Moving at High Rate of Speed East to West Above Route 40 @ Route 29 in Ellicott City.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-06-17
Where
Ellicott City, MD, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
39.267, -76.798 · exact
Slug
flash-over-ellicott-city-md-2013-c06aee
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…

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In context

  • One of 16 documented reports from Ellicott City, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 115 sightings in 2013.
  • Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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