CaseLight2019

Smithsburg, MD, USA

The sky turned a reddish color, then there was this pulsating light in the dense clouds. They turned green, purple,blue, and would flas

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-13
Where
Smithsburg, MD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
39.655, -77.573 · exact
Slug
light-over-smithsburg-md-2019-a9ffe0
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…

In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Smithsburg, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 70 sightings in 2019.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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