CaseCone1963
College Park, MD, USA
A witness in College Park, Maryland described a sparking ball of color that changed into a chrome-colored, cone-shaped object before vanishing about eight feet away, in June 1963.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (179 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-06-15
- Where
- College Park, MD, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 38.981, -76.937 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-college-park-md-1963-ccaeea
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In context
- College Park, MD has 16 sightings on file here.
- 1963 brought 3 reports from Maryland.
- The 1960s skewed 0.3% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
Report
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