CaseOval1966

Baltimore, MD, USA

Near Bowleys Quarters, Baltimore, Maryland around 1965-67, a witness reported a silent, flat, oval-shaped object glowing softly with color, observed for 15 to 20 minutes.

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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (170 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-15
Where
Baltimore, MD, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15-20 min
Geo
39.290, -76.612 · exact
Slug
oval-over-baltimore-md-1966-55a7ed
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

In context

  • This is one of 147 reports logged in Baltimore, MD.
  • This case is one of 5 Maryland reports filed in 1966.
  • Oval craft made up 6.6% of 1960s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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