Takoma Park, MD, USA
A report from Takoma Park, MD in August 1973 described three white, sphere-shaped objects that sped off one after another in different directions at very high speed, lasting 5 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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (184 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-08-15
- Where
- Takoma Park, MD, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.978, -77.007 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-takoma-park-md-1973-238b0f
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- Takoma Park, MD has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1973 brought 9 reports from Maryland.
- The 1970s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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