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Maryland UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 72 UFO sighting reports in Maryland from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (16 reports, 22.22% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (10 reports, 13.89% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (16 reports, 22.22% of total).
- 09/29/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 2.78% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (32 reports, 44.44% of total).
Maryland UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Maryland UFO reports from 2019, 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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Four lighted objects in the sky, initially stacked on on top of the other, three of which moved into a V formation one trailing I turned onto the street on which my house is located and within ¼ block of my house, looking northwest, I observed pastel-colored lights (blue and orange) on the grounds of a high school located about one block from my house. I pulled into my driveway and exited my car. I walked down to the front of my house and observed four, disk shaped airborne objects, stacked one on top of the other.
I observed fog or smoke surrounding the objects. I immediately called by wife and told her to come out of the house to see something amazing. I then observed the objects move away from each other, into a formation where three of the objects moved into a “V” formation, with one object moving information behind the formation.
The fog or smoke had cleared. I saw no observable means of thrust or propeller to keep the objects afloat or for their movement. The objects were about 30-50 feet above the ground.
They seemed to be able to sit in the air without any observable! means of support. Once in formation, the three objects in the “V” moved very slowly in a southeast direction, to my left. After a few seconds, the fourth object began to move forward as well.
(It looked as if the one object was guarding the other three objects in the “V” formation. I began to walk a short distance down the street, placing me below the object that stayed behind. I observed the underside of the one object following the other three.
I saw what appeared to be lights in a circle beneath the object that were lighting up in a circular sequence. I never head any sound whatsoever from any of the objects. I continued to observe the objects as the flew almost over my house in a southeast direction.
My wife also observed the objects. I posted my sighting on Nextdoor at the time and one other neighbor, located about 1 ½ blocks from my house (to the northwest), indicted he saw the objects as well. (I’ve contacted him and asked him to make a report as well.
) ! I filmed the object that trailed the other with my iPhone. I a! m a CPA/ Attorney, former federal civil servant and college professor. My wife is a former federal civil servant, now retired.
I would have reported earlier, but did not know about this site until after I read about the military's UFO report and decided to search for a place to file a report.
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3 objects moving slowly emitting large dark colored exhaust/ smoke flames over 95 Baltimore 3 objects flying through sky at a slow rate of speed. All were leaving significant smoke trails behind them. Everyone on 95 southbound had no choice but to see them unless you were completely oblivious.
12/23/19 at approx 4:35pm I witnessed for at least 15 minutes until I was in the White Marsh area and they disappeared out of sight. I first assumed comets but seemed to be moving much to slow and a significant exhaust or smoke flume trailed in the sky behind the objects. I took approx.
15 photos as I drove home from work.
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A green fireball came down towards the southeast and lasted less than a second. We were walking our dog when we saw a fireball come down towards the southeast. It was about half the size of the moon and had a greenish tint to it, but the middle of the fireball was white.
It was in the sky for less than a second before disappearing below the tree line. Our dog seemed too scared to continue our walk, but we might’ve just been projecting our own nervousness. We headed back inside after about five minutes after we’d seen the fireball and didn’t spot anything else.
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Two yellow lights flying over the Power line causing the street lines to flicker constantly. Two yellow lights were flying over the Power line causing the street lines to flicker constantly for about 2-3 minutes. At first I did not understand what was going on and continue to drive down the street and returned to my home.
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Witness said he was driving home, saw a light coming down on the right side, stopped and looked in amazement. "It was a ship with lights coming from it. It took off fast and in a flash was gone.
Gone. Call me if you would like to see it.".
"I don’t want people to think I’m crazy but I SAW IT. PERIOD!!! (MUFON CMS 105022).
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UAP above our house object appeared to be still, roughly 50 feet above our home, displaying 5 white lights; no noise; no aircraft near our home. No ambient lighting to cause this. We have a photo of the incident.
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Daytime disappearing triangles in the sky. Was driving down south on a 3-lane highway around 5 in the afternoon when I noticed 5 dark triangular shapes in the sky moving slowly in a V formation plus 2 separate triangles directly in front of the 5. The other 2 were side by side.
All were headed west. I instinctively slowed down and I noticed another car to my left did the same thing. The other driver was also looking at the triangles in the sky.
After about 3 minutes, the triangles stopped moving and then seemed to disappear one by one, until they were all gone. I turned to look at the other driver and we looked at each other and we both made the same puzzled gesture. The objects did not look like any aircraft that I've seen before.
They did not emit any lights.
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Two triangular and glowing shaped objects in the night sky. I was testing my new iPhone 11 camera and took a picture into the night sky, into complete darkness, above my home and much to my surprise I noticed two triangular shaped objects in the sky from the picture I took. Please see attached picture.
They seemed to be far enough away that I couldn’t have heard any sound or have any idea how large they are.
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They were communicating with my mind as I was searching the internet on my cell phone for a pornographic video then I saw the object appear on my ceiling. A black dot moving left to right. It just occurred again as I was thinking about what to write next.
Now two appeared then one disappeared.
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MADAR Node 77.
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A blood-red star-like light sitting low on the horizon with multiple planes in formation flashing white lights in the sky nearby. I was standing on the back deck of my home watching the meteor shower around 11:25-11:30 pm Eastern Time, when I saw a star-like blood-red object sitting in the sky low on the western horizon behind the trees in my neighborhood. I knew this wasn't a plane as it had no flashing lights whatsoever and had the appearance of a star, albeit with a blood red color.
I also saw several planes in the sky above the northwest horizon sitting in one place with flashing white lights, not far from the alleged UFO, forming a triangular formation in the sky. I tried taking a picture with my phone, but by then the object was obscured by the trees This comes almost 2 months after a UFO sighting I reported involving two star-like UFOs, one blood red and the other ocean blue, rotating in a circular formation while maintaining a perfectly linear distance from each other, before they vanished as I tried to take a picture. I suspect the blood-red star-like UFO in this report was on! e of the same two I sighted near Salsa's during my previous report, given its appearance and nature.
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Very large, slow descending green fireball As I stood outside in the dark evening hours of the night in the parking lot facing East I saw a very large, bright green, slow descending fireball appear out of nowhere just on the other side of the trees across the street from where I was standing. It was so large that it appeared to be bigger than the size of the distant moon appears to be to the naked eye. It lasted for under 10 seconds and it was so close that I was sure that I would hear it crash nearby, but it did not make a sound as it soon disappeared on the horizon.
Unfortunately, due to reasons unknown to me, I cannot recall the exact date and time or any immediate details surrounding the sighting. Just that I saw it. I also do not know why it has taken me this long to report it, for I have since inquired of many people if they saw it too to no avail.
I do, however, remember that COVID-19 errupted very shortly after this event. I have also experienced a very significant, spiritual awareness boost, and was guided by, what seems to have been, subliminal thoughts to enhance my spiritual awakening journey which I developed a much stronger commitment to. I also have been a witness to several phenomenal events in the immediate area after seeing the fireball; such as distinct, picturesque cloud formations in the vicinity of where the firball descened from as well as sudden weather pattern changes which defied our local weather service announcements, on quite a regular basis.
Again, I cannot recall the exact month or time but it was, indeed, near the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Four star-like lights fixed single file moving deliberate, smooth, silent, and racing across the DELMARVA Peninsula. On the night of the 11th, my husband and I were returning from town. Our home is rural (dead center of the DELMARVA Peninsula) with a perfect night sky for star watching, which I do regularly.
I stepped out of my truck on the west side facing the Chesapeake Bay. While looking out and upward, I thought I identified Orion’s belt, but I quickly realized that is was 4 stars not 3 and the rest of his body was missing. I looked to the east towards the moon and identified a bright star to its bottom left.
I looked back at the 4 stars and realized they were moving. The lights appeared to be far above plane altitudes as there were multiple planes flying in different directions at different altitudes (normal activity). The planes were obvious by their running lights.
Additionally, there is a great deal of government activity, regularly, so planes and the associated noise are normal. I began to yell to my husband to “look, look, what is that?” Immediately, in my heart,! I knew it was not earthly. At first, I thought the “star-like lights” were horizontal beside each other, but then I realized they were moving single file, one behind the other.
Most important to their movement was the distance between them never wavered. It was if they were connected somehow by material or an unseen force. The first two were closer to one another, and then the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th light were evenly distributed.
My first thought on their movement was how the animation of Santa sailing across the sky moves…deliberate, smooth, silent, racing. It was like the lights were a train with an engine car and then individual cars. I was mad at myself for not having my phone, which I had noted earlier when I missed the beaver moon shot on the way to town.
I wanted to run to the house to get it, but I was afraid of missing any of this event. The lights appeared to be moving from the south west on a curve directly towards and over our farm. As they moved closer, I ran to th! e house through the west side door, grabbed the phone, and hea! ded out the south side door (mere seconds).
I fumbled to get the recorder going as I continued to watch the event unfold. The 4 lights continued what seemed like a curve and headed south east. As they trailed away, I could only see the last light because of their single file position.
The video is terrible. I hold a PhD in Public Policy, and we are the largest free-range egg farm in Maryland.
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UFO outside house (only seen from inside) abduction through walls/roof (?) preface: No, this is not my idea of a joke to waste your time. I have held onto this experience for years and have told only few close friends out of fear of being judged. I am probably going to immediately discredit myself by saying this but at the time I had taken about 100 ug of LSD.
I feel like this is very important for me to mention even though I am probably about to be discredited because I have a very big sense that I was "picked out" that night for "research" because of doing it. This was not my first time doing it, and even though the experience horrified me it was not my last because I wanted to see if my brain would ever "go there" again and It hasn't. I am very clearly able to separate the hallucinations from whatever happened to me that night.
The night started at my dad's house. I had just started tripping on the acid I had eaten roughly a half hour before and my girlfriend thought it would be best to move me to her friend's house because I was laughing too hard and we didn't want my dad to question my state of mind. I agree and she drives me to her friend's house on the other side of my neighborhood.
Once we both arrive the night played out as normal as it could have for the situation for about two hours. I had brought a dab pen with me and remember all of us sharing that watching to wong foo (or lsd's version of it where time stops and its just a single drag queen frowning in a car staring at you soullessly for an hour(don't do drugs, kids.)) about halfway (at least I think) through the movie I don't know how or why but I go from laying on the bed, to standing in the middle of the staircase with nobody around me.
I had been entirely teleported in the blink of an eye. I'm there for maybe five seconds before i'm shot into a different room downstairs in the house, and then eventually I am sucked up out the roof through the corner of the house (It felt like i was turned into gas and sucked through a tube, but I kept flipping and sticking to the sides of the wall like one of those sticky knick-knack guys you throw on the wall.) From here I am entirely enveloped by a soupy gold/yellow light that would switch from the gold/yellow glow to a more analogue orange glow.
I can hear a part of myself say "this is deeply wrong" and I am then shot the image of a face right in front of mine. It was almost humanoid but it was entirely translucent and actually lacked a "face." no eyes, maybe some small indents to indicate a nose or mouth but it as very subtle if it had anything.
The face would have horrified me if I saw it in a movie or dream but for whatever reason I stayed entirely calm. As a hospital frequenter (I break bones a lot) I could tell this was some sort of doctors office. the room was small like a patient first room and I could see about two or three more of these entities shuffling around in the background assisting.
I was on an operating table of sorts made entirely out of the same light I was enveloped in before. Somehow from here I am able to see the back of my own head and skull outside my body only It doesn't look like my head at all. The only way I could tell it belonged to me is because I saw them start digging a scalpel into the back of the skull and immediately felt the most release of pressure I have felt in my entire life.
This was indescribably the most satisfying feeling I have felt in my whole Life and I don't even know what they did. It felt like they had sent a charge of white light through my brain only to remove more white light, like they had purified something. In this state I am sent back into the enveloping light and hear myself once again say "this is deeply wrong.
" I am immediately transported back to my body, sitting in perfect full lotus pose with my right foot sitting up top. As soon as I look at my right foot I notice a giant white blister on my toe that wasn't there immediately before the experience. I noticed the blister had the same white almost translucent color that the entity from the operating room had.
it disappeared within a few days but I couldn't help but worry that contact with the being or the craft I was inside of had exposed me to some kind of radiation/etc. Again, I understand that this will probably be discredited because of my aforementioned illicit drug use but again I strongly feel that I was chosen to be studied/met with at all because of the open state that it allowed me to be in at that time, or to make the story easily discredited (like that one Simpsons episode where Homer got abducted but the aliens drenched him in whiskey so nobody would believe him.) (Again I swear on my mother's life this isn't joke or a made up story.
) when I had returned to my girlfriend at the time and her friend they had asked where I went. they said I wasn't gone for too long but they had just noticed me sitting cross-legged on the floor and got worried about me.
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Large disc with extremely bright white lights It was a very large disc and extremely white lights all around it. It hovered, then moved very slowly until it was out of my sight range. I am positive it was a UFO.
When hovering I thought it was a street light or the moon. But when it started moving I was convinced.
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there were two of them and every now and then they would turn their out ahd back on. My wife and I moving an odd patterns(It was too far away) and I've been seeing these UFO's nearly eve3ry night for several months. Last night I saw two of them One in the southwest and one in the northwest quadrant of the sky.
Then a third one came out of the west and docked with the one in the northwest. The only I could tell about them was the crafts were glowing with blue and white lights and they moved a strange pattern at one point one of them was overhead.
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I was siting on my front porch smoking a cigarette. I had just put down my children for the night. I heard the dryer inside going and was scrolling through Facebook.
I looked up from the screen to see what I thought was a plane getting ready to land at Frederick airport, which is about 20 miles away. But I noticed it didnt move and the light on it was getting brighter. Now it was probably a good 2-3 miles from the house.
It looked like a star. It shot straight up. Then without a sound it wizzed above and past my house.
As it past and got closer. I noticed it was triangular in shape and black but had three round lights on the bottom. The closer it got the bigger it looked.
I would say at a whole the ship was the size of a jet plane. But a full black triangle. And the round lights where probably a good 4-5 feet in diameter.
It was very quiet. I heard a slight hum as it passed over me. I've been wanting to tell someone but didn't want to sound crazy.
I don't know what it was. But it definitely sent me inside for the night.
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Route 70 east near Baltimore/Howard line saw bright orb, white light dimmed and cigar shaped object visible with lights on under side. Driving west on 70, saw very bright large white light. It almost seemed like a fireball.
Then white light turned off and underside of large cigar shaped object was visible. Underside appeared to have several planes or panels dotted with flashing red, white, green lights. Moved away in opposite direction, could not exit highway to follow.
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There was a humming-vibration noise, a bright light, and after they stopped (about 20 minutes later), I heard a plane fly away. I woke up to a vibration and humming sound, and I saw a light outside. It stayed there for about 20 minutes, and then the light and sounds stopped.
I then heard what sounded like a plane flying away. The light was very bright, and the humming was quiet but clearly heard.
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THE OBJECT WAS TOO BIG TO BE AN AIRCRAFT AND WAS HOVERING FOR THE MOST PART OF MY OBSERVATION WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE INTO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. I NOTICED A TRIANGULAR SHAPE OF WHITE LIGHTS ALONG THE PERIPHERY OF THE OBJECT IN THE SKY. THOUGHT IT WAS UNUSUAL, IT ALSO HAD AN UNSUAL TAIL OF LIGHTS AT THE BOTTOM ALMOST IN A SWERVED OR ZIG ZAG SHAPE.
IT MUST HAVE BEEN HUGH BECAUSE OF THE WIDTH AND LENGHT I OBSERVED. I TURNED ON SHERIDAN OFF OF NEW HAMSPHIRE, THEN RIGHT ONTO KNOLLBROOK DR. APPROACHING CHILLUM RD WHERE I COULD STOP TO TRY TO TAKED A PICTURE.
WHILE ADJ USTING MY CELL PHONE I LOOKED UP AND THE OBJECT HAD DISAPPEARED. WHEN I NOTICED A STREAM OF LIGHTS MOVING IN A STRAIGHT LINE ON THE LEFT SIDE WHICH WAS APRROACHING A SMALL WHITE CLOUD. I NOTICED ON MY RIGHT THE OBJECT HAD REAPPEARED JUST A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY FROM WHERE I HAD ORIGINALLY SEEN IT.
I COULD NOT CAPTURE THE OBJECT ON MY CELL PHONE SINCE APPARENTLY IT WAS TOO HIGH IN THE SKY. I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A SPACE STATION IN VIRGINIA AND I THOUGHT PERHAPS IT WAS NEAR THAT AREA.
Maryland UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Triangle | 16 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Light | 14 reported sightings | 19.44% of all reports |
Unknown | 7 reported sightings | 9.72% of all reports |
Fireball | 7 reported sightings | 9.72% of all reports |
Circle | 5 reported sightings | 6.94% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Oval | 3 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Rectangle | 3 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 2.78% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 1.39% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.39% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 1.39% of all reports |
Maryland UFO Sightings From 2019 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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September | 10 reported sightings | 13.89% of all reports |
January | 10 reported sightings | 13.89% of all reports |
December | 9 reported sightings | 12.50% of all reports |
August | 7 reported sightings | 9.72% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 9.72% of all reports |
June | 6 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
October | 6 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
July | 5 reported sightings | 6.94% of all reports |
March | 5 reported sightings | 6.94% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
February | 3 reported sightings | 4.17% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 1.39% of all reports |
Maryland UFO Sightings From 2019 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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Friday | 16 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Saturday | 13 reported sightings | 18.06% of all reports |
Sunday | 11 reported sightings | 15.28% of all reports |
Thursday | 8 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Tuesday | 8 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Monday | 8 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Wednesday | 8 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Maryland UFO Sightings From 2019 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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09/29/19 | 2 reported sightings | 2.78% of all reports |
08/23/19 | 2 reported sightings | 2.78% of all reports |
07/05/19 | 2 reported sightings | 2.78% of all reports |
09/06/19 | 2 reported sightings | 2.78% of all reports |
12/23/19 | 2 reported sightings | 2.78% of all reports |
Maryland UFO Sightings From 2019 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 | 32 reported sightings | 44.44% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 15 reported sightings | 20.83% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 13 reported sightings | 18.06% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 10 reported sightings | 13.89% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 2.78% of all reports |
All Maryland Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Maryland, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Maryland
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Maryland.