CaseCircle1967
La Plata, MD, USA
bright rotating colors, two objects, one large and one much smaller.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (68 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-12-15
- Where
- La Plata, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 38.529, -76.975 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-la-plata-md-1967-873f44
Wave
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- La Plata, MD has 7 sightings on file here.
- 1967 brought 3 reports from Maryland.
- The 1960s skewed 10.1% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.