CaseCircle1948
Sharpsburg, MD, USA
A witness in Sharpsburg, Maryland reported a small, silent, circular object flying below 100 feet with occupants visible in white uniforms, observed for about three minutes in December 1948.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (190 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1948-12-12
- Where
- Sharpsburg, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 39.458, -77.749 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-sharpsburg-md-1948-063608
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In context
- Sharpsburg, MD has 3 sightings on file here.
- 1948 brought 2 reports from Maryland.
- The 1940s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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