Flash over Ellicott City, MD
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The report, as filed
Bright White Light Moving at High Rate of Speed East to West Above Route 40 @ Route 29 in Ellicott City.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2013-06-14 → 2013-07-01
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March 19, 2021 · 8:15 PM · CHANGING
Ellicott City, MD
Seen and object 2 times, 1er time it look like a light and it will turn light on and off, 2 time 2 minutes later , my son in the car saw the objet closer to the car and it will change shapes and was going really fast close to the trees and will turn lights on and off and it will look like an slow motion but super fast.
April 27, 2020 · 9:03 PM · FORMATION
Ellicott City, MD
I do not have much information because this happened a few minutes ago from writing this report although I will be as accurate as possible. At 20:55 on Monday I went out to walk my dog and I was out there for about 8 minutes before I looked up into the night sky and noticed 4 objects traveling in a straight lined formation with a 5th object trailing behind slightly. The four aircraft were evenly spaced apart and it seemed as the 5th object was catching up somewhat. I then looked behind the lined formation of 5 aicraft and noticed that there was not another one behind. This is when I ran to the window where my brother was sitting in the house and I started knocking on it getting him to come outside real quick because I thought the formation was very unnatural. It took my brother about 20 seconds to put shoes on and when I brought him outside more objects appeared, this time about 7-10 aircraft with even spacing in between them and travelling in the same strai! ght line and direction as the previous craft. They were moving in a straight line although some of the aircraft seemed to wobble slightly, it was very small almost unnoticeable unless you focused on them. The direction that these aircraft were traveling was West to East at a slightly downward angle moving more or less Southeast. We live surrounded by tress so the both of us could only see them for about a minute or two and as they continued moving in their straight line. I checked a flight tracker online to see if there was anything like this being reported and nothing showed up which is when I came here. I looked up the Starlink Satellite tracker however all of the satellites pictured there did not seem to match up to what I saw because they were almost directly above us maybe a little bit farther North.
August 21, 2017 · 11:20 PM · TRIANGLE
Ellicott City, MD
Was going home from work from Baltimore county, saw a triangular shape air craft was was moving so quick, has 3 lights but two were blinking. I saw a plane but the plane was moving slow, that UFO flew by so fast, could not record it on time. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We are not sure whether the time shown above is intended as a.m., or p.m., but we have amended it, to reflect a nighttime sighting. We are unable to contact the source to confirm the time. PD
October 23, 2015 · 6:15 PM · FORMATION
Ellicott City, MD
They were not emitting light because they were getting dimmer as it was getting darker indicating they reflecting off light from Sun. As they were higher up in the sky than trees objects and homes on ground, they were brighter as long as sun set completely in the horizon.
September 4, 2014 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Ellicott City, MD
I witnessed a single bright light hovering in the sky over interstate 70 in the western portion of Ellicott City. I was driving east bound and saw the light remain stationary in the sky. It was white in color and did not move. Other craft such as helicopters and planes were visible elsewhere in the sky moving and containing blinking lights while this object remained motionless and did not exhibit any blinking patterns nor extra lights us per usual with helicopters and planes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 25, 2013 · 8:27 PM · CIRCLE
Ellicott City, MD
((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information; remains totally anonymous. PD))