UFOMYST
CaseDisk1977

Silver Spring, MD, USA

Saw a saucer hovering over the, then Hebrew Congregation on Lockwood Drive. It was less than a 100 yds from me, as clear as day.

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 (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-04-11
Where
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
few minutes
Geo
38.991, -77.026 · exact
Slug
disk-over-silver-spring-md-1977-4515af
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

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In context

  • One of 33 documented reports from Silver Spring, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 8 sightings in 1977.
  • Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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