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Maryland UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 1,840 UFO sighting reports in Maryland to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (357 reports, 19.40% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (211 reports, 11.47% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (319 reports, 17.34% of total).
- 09/19/09 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 0.38% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (149 reports, 8.10% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (804 reports, 43.70% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Maryland
These Maryland UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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fFying above 355 from north flying toward south, with pike, Red lights or red light on each end. No sound at all. fFlying high above 355 from north flying south, Red lights or red light on each end.
Absolutely no sound. Maybe tandem planes far/high above? Seemed like one structure as I beheld a shape connecting the lights. If very high, then huge in size.
It seemed like a rectangle, flying long end to long end: So, north end, long end of rectangle (with a red light or lights) which lead the south long end of the rectangle which trailed with red light or lights at tail. Perceived for 2 seconds at most.
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Very bright object streaming through the sky, low in the horizon from East to West, Very Fast down angle Looked like to was a meteor Very bright object, seen for just 2-3 second - may have even been on fire or glowing, Moving very fast - faster than something falling , heading down towards horizon like it was crashing. Very meteor-like - but no real trail. Almost looked like a plane crashing - but too fast.
Also did not see or hear any impact.
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Lights and abnormal movement Watching the sky while on the phone. I appreciate the stars. I watch satellites and such go by.
I do know they while not absolutely make a sudden 90° turn. A seeing that another appeared goin in a crossing sweep. It fell in line with others course an both seemed to blip away.
Then in a few seconds they re appeared bighter an red in color. I saw this in absolute confusion. Then a brigh white light very luminous almost a stretched boomerang quickly appeared and disappeared.
It wasn't a light it ad depth . It was separate from the background stars. It almost apear as a fast dip in of something then gone.
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rectangular object with many colored lights on the bottom moving from one side to the other object was moving very slowly in a straight line but disappeared from my sight when it reached the end of my window.
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Group of lights in night sky looked different than the rest My wife noticed a group of three stars in a row, similar to Orion's belt, that looked cloudy when the rest of the sky was very clear. These were spotted looking over the top of our house to the east, altitude varied. As we watched, the westernmost or trailing star became very bright and the entire formation seemed to get closer.
A gaseous cloud emanated from the formation in a conical shape and the formation began gaining altitude until it faded away into the sky. A quick check of air traffic in our area showed zero aircraft in that direction. Aircraft headed south towards BWI or beyond were flying steady and at a different altitude than the formation.
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I was driving on route 17 south of Wolfsville, MD. While on the road my wife and I had notice 3 triangle/cone like objects hovering 3 triangle/cone like objects hovering over a field in a sort of clockwise movement. It was so fast I pulled over to record with my phone and the 3 objects in zipped up in a single second and were no longer in my view.
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V formation 12 orbs heading southeast 12 orbs flying in a linear V formation heading southwest at 11:03 PM EST Frederick Maryland. Viewer on ground at 5 ft video recording with iphone 13 HDR. 8 ft tree to viewer's left in the video.
Attached screenshots from flighttracker.com and wind map trajectory 12 mph southwest.
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Stationary object in East Baltimore sky with different colored lights coming from it I got up to go to the bathroom and noticed what I first thought was a bright star but when I looked closer it was definitely not a star. It seemed to be in our skies rather than in space. Also it had green and red lights emanating from it which seemed to form a sort of diamond shape at one point.
But then the lower beams directed outward away from the central body while the upper portion seemed to reflect lights toward each other (meeting above in the center). I tried to get a photo with my phone but it looks blurry.
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Green orb sitting in sky and then drops suddenly and disappears I have seen shooting stars which usually appear yellow and streak across the sky and this didn't look like that. This was a big green looking ball. At first it was stationary, just appeared to be sitting in the sky like a star or a planet.
As soon as I pointed it out to my husband, it dipped downwards and then disappeared. Did not appear to be a plane or anything else I have ever seen before. I do not know if this was a UFO.
I thought maybe a possible meteor but found no reports of meteor showers at this time. I also found no mention of anyone else seeing this.
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Multiple crafts moving in all directions observed taking off at very high speed. Square craft with 4 lights, 1 light in each corner. These craft moved quickly and stopped abruptly.
They are all over the night sky here in ridge md. I've seen them every single night for the past 4 days. About 6 seem to hover for hours above my house for at least 3 hours.
It's dark but with my spotlight I could make out the shapes of them. AGAIN ITS EVERY NIGHT !.
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Object hovered approx 1/2 mile above Potomac River Object hovered with no sound approx. 5 minutes and then disappeared.
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It is not a cloud, the image is faint and grows clearer. The top looks more profound and the bottom portion is smaller. it grows Between 2:14.
53 and 2:42.51 AM an image appears in front of my house in the night sky. It is initially faint in appearance but gradually gets clearer.
It fades again but appears sharper at the end of the first 46 second video. In the second video, 2:42.51 AM; the image/object appears to stretch out and separate.
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At 1st glance lights (4) appeared slightly higher than street lamps but change into just 2 larger bright lights that tilted & vanished I was traveling North on I-81 in Hagerstown, MD at around 5:15 in slow moving traffic. Street lamps had just come on but it was still light out when I seen 4 lights that may have been in a diamond formation or just a cluster that I thought were just a bit than taller street lamps but were offset a good ways from the interstate. I was never able to pass them, so they were not stationary at all and kept the same height and distance as I drove 8 miles of driving distance.
They continued to travel and I lost sight of them briefly when traffic slowed down. Once the traffic sped up to 50 mph I was able to regain site of them, until I was even with Hagerstown airports runway. The runway is on the eastern side of the interstate, on the western side of the interstate is farmland.
Once the lights reached the farmland, they merged into 2 square lights that resembled the Lotto Shoe logo (2 squares joined but with a space) the bottom of the 2 squares was extremely bright. Much brighter than the upper portion. Then they were gone.
I did not see them go up or down or anything. Mind you this entire event lasted maybe 10-12 minutes if that long and I was driving in decently heavy traffic.
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Series of lights moving slowly across the sky in a stright line. Most of the lights were solid but some were blinking. A straight line of lights were moving slowly across the evening sky.
Never saw anything like it. They all moved in a line following one another, some were solid and others were blinking. Only lasted maybe a few minutes if that.
Their were many and not a small amount again moving in a straight line, slow!.
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I went to take a photo of the full moon, thought I saw a star, went to show my nephew and it dropped from the sky. At 4:16AM in the morning of October 29th, 2023, I decided to take photos of the full moon + clouds. I took the photos and noticed, what appeared to be a star to me, a singular, bright light, maintaining one spot for over 5 minutes.
I went inside to show the photos to my family, talked for about 5-7 minutes then brought my nephew outside to see the moon/clouds. I pointed out the “star” to my nephew, and not soon after, we both notice it quickly drop down from the sky, at least 200 feet, then go straight back up, above the clouds. I looked at my photos and noticed the object was hanging directly below cloud cover, right on the edge of the cloud.
I know it wasn’t a plane, it maintained the same space for an extended period of time and the speed it accelerated to as it dropped would be unmaintainable for an aircraft (possible a missile could maneuver like this, but it couldn’t sit stationary). The object was in the western sky, situated to the bottom left of the moon.
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One continueous light with dispersed red and white lights, moving on line, not inline, SW to NE, low altitude Long string of bright yellow light with dispersed dots of white light and one red light on left end of string as it moved across the sky from southwest to northeast. Yellow string moved as a broad front, not in a linear fashion (similar to a starlink as I understand it), along the axis of advance. Absolutely silent as it moved.
Altitude estimated at 2000 to 3000 feet. Shape of the line appeared to change, as can be seen in the two pictures attached. Multiple images of the yellow line in the pictures are due to camera shake during pro-longed exposure.
Unfortunately, the entire line of light is not in the pictures due to haste in grabbing the camera and taking the pictures.
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Took 2 pictures of chemtrails. Looking back I caught something in the second photo. I was taking pictures of chemtrails when I noticed an object in one of my pictures.
The object has black in the middle, triangle and circle shaped. Zoomed in looks like a panda. Pictures were taken back to back.
A plane can be seen with object.
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white roundish size object captured on doorbell cam On October 20th 2023, I examined my doorbell camera footage from October the 16th through the 19th and discovered a bright light the size of an aspirin over to the south/southwest direction from my home. As it ascended, the roundish white light seem to have shifted direction away from me because the size immediately shrunk, but still ascending. As the object got to the top of the video, I noticed another smaller bluish/white orb following behind it.
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2-3 flying objects that did not move much that were close enough to create a bright flash of light that fell vertically down & vanished I returned home around 2:30 am & in my window saw 1 aircraft that I assumed was a plane. I watched it for several minutes & when it continued blinking colors I grabbed my binoculars & saw that it was not a plane. It had stopped moving when another craft appeared near it.
I woke my partner up & we ended counting 3 crafts near, but not next, to each other. They were amongst/hidden by clouds for a couple minutes, however, you would still see the lights. After watching for 30 minutes we witnessed a bright light shoot vertically from in between 2 of the aircraft’s down toward the ground.
The light disappeared & we had not heard a sound or any news reports. We watched them for a total of 3-4 hours before fall asleep. We assumed they remained in the sky.
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A egg shaped object, glowing with a small contrail, shot through the sky heading Northwest. It seemed at a low altitude I was driving North on 95 around 1:40 am, heading to a job in Owings Mills. Suddenly an object caught my eyesight as it went across the sky.
It was an egg/ orb shaped object, glowing and went through my whole eyesight of the sky within 3-5 seconds.
Maryland UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 357 reported sightings | 19.40% of all reports |
Circle | 204 reported sightings | 11.09% of all reports |
Triangle | 167 reported sightings | 9.08% of all reports |
Unknown | 128 reported sightings | 6.96% of all reports |
Other | 126 reported sightings | 6.85% of all reports |
Disk | 115 reported sightings | 6.25% of all reports |
Sphere | 111 reported sightings | 6.03% of all reports |
Fireball | 107 reported sightings | 5.82% of all reports |
Oval | 100 reported sightings | 5.43% of all reports |
Formation | 64 reported sightings | 3.48% of all reports |
Cigar | 57 reported sightings | 3.10% of all reports |
Changing | 52 reported sightings | 2.83% of all reports |
Flash | 36 reported sightings | 1.96% of all reports |
Rectangle | 33 reported sightings | 1.79% of all reports |
Cylinder | 29 reported sightings | 1.58% of all reports |
Diamond | 28 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Chevron | 22 reported sightings | 1.20% of all reports |
Egg | 18 reported sightings | 0.98% of all reports |
Orb | 14 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Teardrop | 10 reported sightings | 0.54% of all reports |
Cone | 4 reported sightings | 0.22% of all reports |
Maryland UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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October | 211 reported sightings | 11.47% of all reports |
August | 186 reported sightings | 10.11% of all reports |
September | 179 reported sightings | 9.73% of all reports |
July | 169 reported sightings | 9.18% of all reports |
January | 158 reported sightings | 8.59% of all reports |
November | 152 reported sightings | 8.26% of all reports |
June | 150 reported sightings | 8.15% of all reports |
December | 149 reported sightings | 8.10% of all reports |
March | 133 reported sightings | 7.23% of all reports |
April | 114 reported sightings | 6.20% of all reports |
February | 110 reported sightings | 5.98% of all reports |
May | 91 reported sightings | 4.95% of all reports |
Maryland UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 319 reported sightings | 17.34% of all reports |
Sunday | 285 reported sightings | 15.49% of all reports |
Friday | 269 reported sightings | 14.62% of all reports |
Thursday | 263 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Tuesday | 232 reported sightings | 12.61% of all reports |
Wednesday | 220 reported sightings | 11.96% of all reports |
Monday | 214 reported sightings | 11.63% of all reports |
Maryland UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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09/19/09 | 7 reported sightings | 0.38% of all reports |
07/04/14 | 6 reported sightings | 0.33% of all reports |
09/24/22 | 5 reported sightings | 0.27% of all reports |
05/30/13 | 5 reported sightings | 0.27% of all reports |
12/11/04 | 5 reported sightings | 0.27% of all reports |
Maryland UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 804 reported sightings | 43.70% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 340 reported sightings | 18.48% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 275 reported sightings | 14.95% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 160 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 131 reported sightings | 7.12% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 92 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Maryland
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Maryland.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Maryland
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Maryland