UFO Sightings in Maryland
1,688 UFO sightings reported in Maryland since 1946, peaking in 2014 (147 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 1,688
- Span
- 1946–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (147 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1946–2022 · peak 2014 (147 reports)
Top cities in Maryland
Baltimore
1947–2022 · peak 2008 (13 reports)
Ocean City
1990–2020 · peak 2012 (8 reports)
Annapolis
1991–2021 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Hagerstown
1974–2021 · peak 2012 (7 reports)
Frederick
2000–2021 · peak 2014 (8 reports)
Rockville
1973–2021 · peak 2007 (4 reports)
Silver Spring
1977–2020 · peak 2017 (4 reports)
Gaithersburg
1973–2022 · peak 2012 (5 reports)
Bel Air
1990–2020 · peak 2011 (4 reports)
Columbia
1974–2019 · peak 2016 (4 reports)
Pasadena
1979–2021 · peak 2014 (7 reports)
Laurel
1996–2021 · peak 2000 (3 reports)
Waldorf
1989–2019 · peak 1998 (3 reports)
Towson
1963–2021 · peak 2015 (5 reports)
Hanover
1980–2021 · peak 2020 (10 reports)
Elkton
1993–2017 · peak 2017 (4 reports)
Westminster
2003–2021 · peak 2012 (3 reports)
Bowie
1956–2021 · peak 2007 (2 reports)
Salisbury
1996–2018 · peak 2003 (3 reports)
College Park
1963–2020 · peak 2020 (5 reports)
Rockville · MD, USA
Grey, circular object with no lights or sound gliding swiftly across the sky. ((anonymous report))
Sykesville · MD, USA
A gray flying saucer, with red running lights, flew a few feet over my house in Eldersburg, Maryland.
Gambrills · MD, USA
Disappearing "brown pencil" object.
Temple hills · MD, USA
Orange object cruises past home near Andrew's AFB. ((anonymous report))
Germantown · MD, USA
Approx 05:45 on April 28 2017 I witnessed a single, bright, star like object in the southern sky of Germantown, MD.
Elkton · MD, USA
Large 40 ft rectangular object, large white beams of light in each corner shining down, quietly flying 100 ft up just above the trees.
Leonardtown · MD, USA
Was escorted by multiple police.
Clinton · MD, USA
Two witnesses watched winged aircraft with no tail or landing gear stay motionless for some time at the edge of the road.
Rockville · MD, USA
Two UFOs over Rockville, MD. ((anonymous report)) ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of stars, we wonder?? PD))
Elkton · MD, USA
Seen 11 big red lights flying one behind the other. They looked like they rode up from the ground from a distance.
Frederick · MD, USA
A formation of lights in a checkmark pattern moving very fast across the sky. ((anonymous report))
Baltimore · MD, USA
Binary lights dancing through the clouds in large crisscrossing circle. ((anonymous report))
Gambrills · MD, USA
Seen a bright light in the sky a lot bigger than any star. First it was going left then it was going up. ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))
Salisbury · MD, USA
Very Large "parentheses" shaped craft In Salisbur,y MD.
Pasadena · MD, USA
Very bright no sound shaped like a triangle.
Germantown · MD, USA
Blinking star like moving object.
Abingdon · MD, USA
Sphere flying with Parent Aircraft.
Owings Mills · MD, USA
Blue, bright light. Moving fast and circular movement.
Halethorpe · MD, USA
3 red lights flying in a trinagular pattern in the Halethorpe area.
District Heights · MD, USA
((HOAX)) 4 Lights seen in formation then 3 light combined in to one leaving just 2 light. ((anonymous report))
Baltimore · MD, USA
Saw one orange-colored light making abrupt turn abrupt turn then two more suddenly appear side by side of each other with the first one
New Market · MD, USA
Four green lights in sky, not flashing, not moving; appeared to be on the perimeter of a craft.
Germantown · MD, USA
A rectangle formed by six lights zoomed across the sky disappearing into the clouds. ((anonymous report))
Towson · MD, USA
2 cigar shaped ufos hovered for about 10-15 minutes above horizon near forest, then immediately jetted directly vertical, into the sky.
Potomac · MD, USA
I see the reddish pink light acroos the sky underneath the dark clouds floating from Potomac Village toward the Poolesville direction.