UFO sightings in Maryland
There are 62 civilian UFO sighting reports from Maryland in the NUFORC data on this site, dated 1949 to 2013. The busiest year was 2012, with 15 reports. The shapes witnesses reported most were orb (22), disc (11) and sphere (11).
Most reports come from Baltimore (5), Hagerstown (4) and Columbia (3), out of 45 places in the state with at least one report.
UFO sightings by city in Maryland
Places with at least three reports. 41 other places in Maryland have one or two.
Recent sighting reports from Maryland
All 62 reports, newest first.
- 26 Oct 2013 · 19:00BrunswickTriangle· 3 min
Saw weirrd 3 lighted triangle craft aprox 7:00 pm over Brunswick Maryland last night.. Was driving! Looked like it was compied by civil
Show on map - 26 Oct 2013 · 09:45Colton's PointSphere· 10 min
7 blue circles spotted by 4 people.
Show on map - 25 Oct 2013 · 20:27Ellicott CitySphere· 2 min
((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information; remains totally anonymous. PD))
Show on map Baltimore MD BWI a formation of more than 20 orange lights strung across the eastern horizon at a elevation of 35 degrees
Show on map- 25 Oct 2013 · 10:00ElktonOther· 30 min
Object in Elkton sky with flashing orange lights, just floating/hovering. Looked like a planets or star but def not.
Show on map - 24 Oct 2013 · 19:45EdgewaterOrb· 1 min
Saw two stationary lights in the southeastern sky for about 1.5 minutes very brilliant light and then faded away.
Show on map - 24 Oct 2013 · 18:30ArnoldOrb· 5 s
Extremely bright ball/circle of yellow-white light surrounded by a red outline streaked across evening sky
Show on map A low diamond shaped flash of light that started blue and turned white like a bright shooting star over Sewells Orchard Pond.
Show on map- 19 Oct 2013 · 21:11PoolesvilleSphere· 1 h
2 large spheres of light moving quickly, followed by 4 silent orange lights in L formation an hour later.
Show on map - 15 Oct 2013 · 15:00BethesdaDisc· 7 s
Saucer flying low and fast over Betheda/Rockville area in broad daylight.
Show on map - 13 Oct 2013 · 19:45PasadenaSphere· 1 min
Orange object with white streaks observed near BWI airport.
Show on map Orange/gold ovular object seen hovering, then shut off lights the second another eye witness came within view.
Show on map- 2 Oct 2013 · 06:45Upper MarlboroSphere· 2 s
I was painting my house and was on a step ladder about 6 ft high and saw an orange light that looked like it was rotating vertically.
Show on map - 1 Oct 2013 · 06:35Bel AirOrb· 4 s
Flashing ball that goes out and continues as a black dot at slower speed then a meteor.
Show on map - 20 Oct 2012 · 22:30CumberlandOrb· 30 min
Hovering flashing object with sudden movement
Show on map - 20 Oct 2012 · 19:00SevernSphere· 5 min
12 red lights flying
Show on map - 20 Oct 2012 · 18:30Ft. MeadeFormation· 15 min
Dozens of Orange Lights over Fort Meade, Military Base.
Show on map - 19 Oct 2012 · 19:15ButlerOrb· 3 min
3 redish lights spotted in Butler MD at 7:15 pm on 10/19/12
Show on map - 19 Oct 2012 · 18:00SevernOther· 5 min
Three random chunks of car-sized "brown mold" motionless in a clear blue sky near BWI. ((NUFORC Note: USAF Acad. Grad. PD))
Show on map - 18 Oct 2012 · 20:15WolfsvilleTriangle· 5 s
At around 8:15PM eastern time I was outside and all the sudden I heard a really loud noise that sounded almost like a freight train. I
Show on map - 17 Oct 2012 · 23:30WilliamsportCigar· 2 h
Hovering cigar shape craft with lights.
Show on map Dark sauser shape object with dome coasting along 40 degree angle up from horizen moving west to east. .
Show on map- 17 Oct 2012 · 11:25Ft. Meade/BwiOther· 12 min
Object above Ft Meade/BWI is fairly stationary with "spidery" white light and looks the same whether viewed from inside or out
Show on map Bright orange light with no sound.
Show on map- 15 Oct 2012 · 00:15TowsonSphere· 30 min
Orange fixated circle hung above us (in the dist) as we stargazed then.. disappeared
Show on map Driving down Broken Land Parkway heading south, my fiancée, his cousin who was visiting from out of town and I noticed a formation of a
Show on map- 13 Oct 2012 · 01:00Bel AirOrb· 8 s
Bright white orb traveling fast over Bel Air
Show on map - 12 Oct 2012 · 20:00CumberlandOrb· 10 s
Stunned to what I seen. Bright. Semi stationary light. Very bright. Seen no form. Just the light.
Show on map - 11 Oct 2012 · 19:30ArbutusOrb· 5 min
Moving star and strange man
Show on map - 25 Oct 2011 · 06:50AccokeekOrb· 15 s
ball of light flew over vehicle at treetop level and vanished
Show on map - 18 Oct 2011 · 06:00PasadenaOrb· 2 s
On the morning of 10/18 /11 between 600 & 630 hrs I saw a bright object shoot across the sky.
Show on map - 15 Oct 2011 · 02:00LargoSphere· 2 h
This was some time ago but one night back in October I was in bed and had my window up and I was lay down and look to my right out my
Show on map - 27 Oct 2010 · 23:20Mt. SavageDisc· 1 h
changing shades of green and blue. kind o moving in a circular motion. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling stars?? PD))
Show on map - 2 Oct 2010 · 21:00Severn/Glen BurnieTriangle· 1 min
Triangular shaped craft seen hovering near a highway. Large and did not move.
Show on map - 11 Oct 2009 · 04:00CrisfieldOrb· 10 min
A bright light moving across the sky getting closer stopped on a dime got brighter and took off with no sounds at all
Show on map - 21 Oct 2008 · 16:54Mt. AiryOrb· 2 s
faint light move in a zig zag in the sky and at the end it flashed really bright and disappeared Left a trail in the sky very clear out
Show on map - 19 Oct 2008 · 17:00Philadelphia/BaltimoreOrb· 3 s
Large ball of bright light shot overhead and disappeared over the trees on the distant horizon.
Show on map - 11 Oct 2008 · 19:00DoverSphere· 2 h
freinds and familes see UFO
Show on map large white flash of light speeding across sky and disappeared within 3-5 seconds
Show on map- 16 Oct 2007 · 06:55WheatonOrb· 1 min
Moving point of light in vicinity of Wheaton/Glenmont Metro
Show on map - 20 Oct 2006 · 19:07HanoverOrb· 4 min
Bright white light moving west to east over central Maryland
Show on map - 1 Oct 2006 · 19:20MonktonDisc· 8 min
7-10 objects, Multicolored Lights, No Noise, Oval Shaped
Show on map Chevron sighted off I-95 north of Baltimore MD.
Show on mapit was not a satilite
Show on map- 16 Oct 2003 · 08:15StevensvilleOrb· 10 min
We see these lights very often at night looking towards the bay just to the right and above the Baltimore area. These whitish orange li
Show on map - 27 Oct 2002 · 00:15StevensvilleOrb· 1 h
Bright stationary lights
Show on map - 1 Oct 2002 · 09:00GermantownCigar· 3 min
me and boyfriend out on the back deck drinking coffee and we see a cigar shaped craft flying overhead....it struck me as odd because it
Show on map - 26 Oct 2001 · 05:00PotomacOrb· 1 min
STEADY RED LIGHT GOING EAST TO WEST
Show on map - 24 Oct 2000 · 20:25StreetDisc· 30 s
I was standing on my back beck while my dog did his after supper thing, My home is in the flight path of many planes approaching/ exiti
Show on map - 1 Oct 2000 · 20:00WheatonTriangle· 5 min
UFO sighted in Wheaton, MD
Show on map - 19 Oct 1997 · 02:00CroftonOther· 2 h
I heard a strange noise in kitchen.I thought that my cat knocked over the trash bin again.So I whipped my silk rob on, and walked down
Show on map - 15 Oct 1997 · 21:30WaldorfOrb· 7 min
Three circular lights fuse into one and become an intensly bright beacon
Show on map - 25 Oct 1996 · 11:08LaurelOther· 25 s
Man, entering Hwy. I-95, sees 2 round objs. hovering motionless in clear sky. Color of pencil lead w/ copper. Objs. STREAK in 1 sec.
Show on map - 13 Oct 1990 · 16:00Rising SunSphere· 10 min
These were four brightly luminous objects observed in the broad daylight. They were lined up in a row-vertically. They were all spher
Show on map Large, low-flying, slow moving, silent black rectangle with no lights
Show on mapAbduction middle of night encounter human atired in US Military Uniforms (Airforce) experience some type of Brain Surgery!
Show on mapFloating abduction out of bed into a silver saucer; US military human beings on board, some kind of head surgery performed.
Show on map"Jupiter Two"-like spacecraft, flew noiselessly, slowly just over the field in our backyard.
Show on mapOct 1973 Baltimore, Md Discw/dome/portholewindows/interiorLight. Noiseless, hovering, close by, huge
Show on map- 21 Oct 1973 · 14:30FederalsburgDisc· 5 min
Saucer spotted in Federalsburg MD
Show on map - 20 Oct 1965 · 15:00JoppatownOrb· 2 min
controled fireball
Show on map It was around 8:PM and I was walking home,it was a full moon but something made me lookup, there was no noise, but an object came in fr
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Where these reports come from
Reports are from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) public database: what members of the public said they saw, in their own words. Nobody has checked them, and most sightings have ordinary explanations.