CaseLight2020
Betterton, MD, USA
Blinking object flying at very high speed in nonsensical flight path
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-27
- Where
- Betterton, MD, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.366, -76.062 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-betterton-md-2020-f6183a
Wave
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
- Betterton, MD has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 83 reports from Maryland.
- The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.