CaseOval1948
Baltimore, MD, USA
A witness in Baltimore, Maryland reported two oval-shaped objects in flight leaving trails, with no accompanying sound, observed for about eight seconds in June 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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1948-06-30
- Where
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 8 sec
- Geo
- 39.290, -76.612 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-baltimore-md-1948-18654a
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In context
- This is one of 147 reports logged in Baltimore, MD.
- This case is one of 2 Maryland reports filed in 1948.
- Oval craft made up 4.5% of 1940s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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