CaseCircle1988
Potomac, MD, USA
Large orange ball traveled fast in night sky and then disappeared
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-06-01
- Where
- Potomac, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 secs
- Geo
- 39.018, -77.209 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-potomac-md-1988-01f322
In context
- Potomac, MD shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Maryland in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 8.2% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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