UFOMYST
CaseSphere2005

Columbia, MD, USA

two silver ballls over skies in howad county vanish one by one

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-05-10
Where
Columbia, MD, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
39.240, -76.839 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-columbia-md-2005-8b0c61
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.
  • 40 reports came from Maryland in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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