UFOMYST
CaseLight2018

Columbia, MD, USA

Two small white lights very high in the sky moving in unison.

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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-16
Where
Columbia, MD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-15 seconds
Geo
39.240, -76.839 · exact
Slug
light-over-columbia-md-2018-3ab3dc
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

  • Columbia, MD shows up 27 times across the archive.
  • 54 reports came from Maryland in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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