UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Stevensville, MD, USA

Light over chesapeake bay appeared to be a star we stepped off porch to get a closer look and light came down out of the sky and hovere

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
1997-08-01
Where
Stevensville, MD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 minutes (?)
Geo
38.981, -76.314 · exact
Slug
light-over-stevensville-md-1997-4ede59
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    The Phoenix Lights

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    The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…

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In context

  • One of 8 documented reports from Stevensville, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 13 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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