CaseDisk1956
Bowie, MD, USA
Witnesses in Bowie, Maryland reported an unusual disk-shaped object seen from multiple vantage points for about 15 minutes in March 1956.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (137 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1956-03-20
- Where
- Bowie, MD, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- 38.943, -76.730 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-bowie-md-1956-e20bb4
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In context
- One of 17 documented reports from Bowie, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 2 sightings in 1956.
- Disk sightings ran at 28.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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