CaseSphere1966
Beltsville, MD, USA
Green sphere speeding across the sky in 1960's
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-05-05
- Where
- Beltsville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2minutes
- Geo
- 39.035, -76.907 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-beltsville-md-1966-a3d1a3
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- One of 5 documented reports from Beltsville, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 5 sightings in 1966.
- Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.