CaseFlash2001
Owings Mills, MD, USA
a stationary object appeared in the sky for 10 seconds and its brightness increased over this time and disappeard w/ a trail of light.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-04-20
- Where
- Owings Mills, MD, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5-7 sec
- Geo
- 39.420, -76.780 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-owings-mills-md-2001-3d7b93
In context
- One of 16 documented reports from Owings Mills, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 37 sightings in 2001.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.8% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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