This state has emerged as a UFO hotspot with nearly 2K sightings revealed

Maybe E.T. just likes Old Bay Seasoning.

In the midst of the United States’ efforts to be much more transparent with UFO knowledge, the state of Maryland has emerged as a hotbed of alleged sightings.

There have been nearly 2,000 unidentified anomalous phenomena sightings in the state — home to Andrews Air Force Base and the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis — according to data from the National UFO Reporting Center.

“It’s heartening to me that so many people are coming forward now. We are getting significantly more reports than just six months or a year ago,”said NUFORC director Peter Davenport of the 1,923 eyewitness reveals.

 “I don’t know what the future has in store for us, but I am encouraged that more people are coming forward and the government recognizes the UFO phenomenon that’s something worthy of their attention.” 

One eyewitness, Greg Facelo of the northeastern town of Port Deposit, recalled an unexplainable sight he saw in the sky recently to CBS Baltimore.

“It went across the sky this way and only lasted for maybe 30 to 45 seconds,” he told the channel.

“If it was a shooting star, a comet, some natural occurrence, I wouldn’t have bothered to send it to you, but this thing looked made by some intelligent life form,” he said. “It was nothing like I’ve never seen before … It broke apart, then it streamed out and just faded in the sky.”

While Facelo can’t exactly describe what flew by, his bet is on something non-human.

“Whatever it was traveled the sky at a much lower rate than the planes. It could be extraterrestrial life,” he suggested. “I don’t know. It didn’t look natural.”

In addition to Maryland, recent data from the Defense Department’s newly unveiled UAP reporting portal shows that many of the southern, coastal Atlantic states — even former President Jimmy Carter may have seen one in Georgia — are hotbeds for sightings, as are Japan and the Middle East.

Typically, UAP witnesses describe a rounded object between 1 and 4 meters in size, according to the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office — the formal name of the Pentagon’s tracking program.

They are often described as silver or “translucent” and are spotted between 10,000 and 30,000 feet above ground.

Some objects have been seen as “stationary,” while others were moving as fast as Mach 2.