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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.

By place

UFO sightings by city in Maryland

Places with at least three reports. 41 other places in Maryland have one or two.

The reports

Recent sighting reports from Maryland

All 62 reports, newest first.

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  1. 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

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  2. 26 Oct 2013 · 09:45Colton's PointSphere· 10 min

    7 blue circles spotted by 4 people.

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  3. 25 Oct 2013 · 20:27Ellicott CitySphere· 2 min

    ((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information; remains totally anonymous. PD))

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  4. 25 Oct 2013 · 20:00BaltimoreFormation· 10 min

    Baltimore MD BWI a formation of more than 20 orange lights strung across the eastern horizon at a elevation of 35 degrees

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

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  7. 24 Oct 2013 · 18:30ArnoldOrb· 5 s

    Extremely bright ball/circle of yellow-white light surrounded by a red outline streaked across evening sky

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  8. 24 Oct 2013 · 07:10ColumbiaDiamond· 20 s

    A low diamond shaped flash of light that started blue and turned white like a bright shooting star over Sewells Orchard Pond.

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  9. 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.

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  10. 15 Oct 2013 · 15:00BethesdaDisc· 7 s

    Saucer flying low and fast over Betheda/Rockville area in broad daylight.

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  11. 13 Oct 2013 · 19:45PasadenaSphere· 1 min

    Orange object with white streaks observed near BWI airport.

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  12. 2 Oct 2013 · 22:45HagerstownDisc· 5 min

    Orange/gold ovular object seen hovering, then shut off lights the second another eye witness came within view.

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  13. 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.

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  14. 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.

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  15. 20 Oct 2012 · 22:30CumberlandOrb· 30 min

    Hovering flashing object with sudden movement

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  16. 20 Oct 2012 · 19:00SevernSphere· 5 min

    12 red lights flying

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  17. 20 Oct 2012 · 18:30Ft. MeadeFormation· 15 min

    Dozens of Orange Lights over Fort Meade, Military Base.

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  18. 19 Oct 2012 · 19:15ButlerOrb· 3 min

    3 redish lights spotted in Butler MD at 7:15 pm on 10/19/12

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  19. 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))

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  20. 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

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  21. 17 Oct 2012 · 23:30WilliamsportCigar· 2 h

    Hovering cigar shape craft with lights.

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  22. 17 Oct 2012 · 14:00HagerstownDisc· 4 s

    Dark sauser shape object with dome coasting along 40 degree angle up from horizen moving west to east. .

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  23. 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

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  24. 15 Oct 2012 · 08:00HagerstownSphere· 5 min

    Bright orange light with no sound.

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  25. 15 Oct 2012 · 00:15TowsonSphere· 30 min

    Orange fixated circle hung above us (in the dist) as we stargazed then.. disappeared

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  26. 13 Oct 2012 · 10:00ColumbiaTriangle· 10 min

    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

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  27. 13 Oct 2012 · 01:00Bel AirOrb· 8 s

    Bright white orb traveling fast over Bel Air

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  28. 12 Oct 2012 · 20:00CumberlandOrb· 10 s

    Stunned to what I seen. Bright. Semi stationary light. Very bright. Seen no form. Just the light.

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  29. 11 Oct 2012 · 19:30ArbutusOrb· 5 min

    Moving star and strange man

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  30. 25 Oct 2011 · 06:50AccokeekOrb· 15 s

    ball of light flew over vehicle at treetop level and vanished

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  31. 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.

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  32. 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

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  33. 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))

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  34. 2 Oct 2010 · 21:00Severn/Glen BurnieTriangle· 1 min

    Triangular shaped craft seen hovering near a highway. Large and did not move.

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  35. 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

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  36. 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

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  37. 19 Oct 2008 · 17:00Philadelphia/BaltimoreOrb· 3 s

    Large ball of bright light shot overhead and disappeared over the trees on the distant horizon.

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  38. 11 Oct 2008 · 19:00DoverSphere· 2 h

    freinds and familes see UFO

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  39. 21 Oct 2007 · 21:40HagerstownOrb· 5 s

    large white flash of light speeding across sky and disappeared within 3-5 seconds

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  40. 16 Oct 2007 · 06:55WheatonOrb· 1 min

    Moving point of light in vicinity of Wheaton/Glenmont Metro

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  41. 20 Oct 2006 · 19:07HanoverOrb· 4 min

    Bright white light moving west to east over central Maryland

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  42. 1 Oct 2006 · 19:20MonktonDisc· 8 min

    7-10 objects, Multicolored Lights, No Noise, Oval Shaped

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  43. 15 Oct 2004 · 21:12BaltimoreBoomerang· 15 s

    Chevron sighted off I-95 north of Baltimore MD.

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  44. 12 Oct 2004 · 07:37RockvilleOrb· 10 s

    it was not a satilite

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  45. 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

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  46. 27 Oct 2002 · 00:15StevensvilleOrb· 1 h

    Bright stationary lights

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  47. 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

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  48. 26 Oct 2001 · 05:00PotomacOrb· 1 min

    STEADY RED LIGHT GOING EAST TO WEST

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  49. 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

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  50. 1 Oct 2000 · 20:00WheatonTriangle· 5 min

    UFO sighted in Wheaton, MD

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  51. 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

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  52. 15 Oct 1997 · 21:30WaldorfOrb· 7 min

    Three circular lights fuse into one and become an intensly bright beacon

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  53. 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.

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  54. 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

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  55. 1 Oct 1979 · 19:00ColumbiaRectangle· 2 min

    Large, low-flying, slow moving, silent black rectangle with no lights

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  56. 15 Oct 1975 · 03:00RockvilleDisc· 2 h

    Abduction middle of night encounter human atired in US Military Uniforms (Airforce) experience some type of Brain Surgery!

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  57. 15 Oct 1975 · 02:30RockvilleDisc· 2 h

    Floating abduction out of bed into a silver saucer; US military human beings on board, some kind of head surgery performed.

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  58. 21 Oct 1973 · 18:30BaltimoreDisc· 8 min

    "Jupiter Two"-like spacecraft, flew noiselessly, slowly just over the field in our backyard.

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  59. 21 Oct 1973 · 17:30BaltimoreDisc· 15 min

    Oct 1973 Baltimore, Md Discw/dome/portholewindows/interiorLight. Noiseless, hovering, close by, huge

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  60. 21 Oct 1973 · 14:30FederalsburgDisc· 5 min

    Saucer spotted in Federalsburg MD

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  61. 20 Oct 1965 · 15:00JoppatownOrb· 2 min

    controled fireball

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  62. 15 Oct 1949 · 20:00BaltimoreCigar· 3 min

    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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About this data

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.