UFOMYST
CaseFormation2013

Elk Mills, MD, USA

Orange orbs or floating lights in sky over Elkton, MD

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-31
Where
Elk Mills, MD, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
39.659, -75.826 · exact
Slug
formation-over-elk-mills-md-2013-b4ca8b
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Elk Mills, MD has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 115 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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