Hagerstown (near), MD, USA
large white flash of light speeding across sky and disappeared within 3-5 seconds
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-10-21
- Where
- Hagerstown (near), MD, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.642, -77.720 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-hagerstown-near-md-2007-503512
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
- Hagerstown (near), MD shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 43 reports came from Maryland in 2007.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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