CaseOval1950
Kensington, MD, USA
A witness in Kensington, Maryland reported a reflective, oval-shaped object hovering in the sky near Washington, D.C., observed for about 10 minutes in June 1950.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (162 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1950-06-07
- Where
- Kensington, MD, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.026, -77.076 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-kensington-md-1950-a2af4c
In context
- Kensington, MD has 8 sightings on file here.
- 1950 brought 1 reports from Maryland.
- The 1950s skewed 6.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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