UFOMYST
CaseSphere1977

Marley Park, MD, USA

a glowing white (bright) object about 20 ft. in the air moving slow and coming at us and then it was gone .Gone so fast we didnt see it

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-04
Where
Marley Park, MD, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
1 minute
Geo
39.156, -76.595 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-marley-park-md-1977-d67e1d
Wave

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Marley Park, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 8 sightings in 1977.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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