Childs, MD, USA
we were driving down the road i look up to the sky, sun was out but,there was some clouds around, a big round silver shape was comeing
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-03-15
- Where
- Childs, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20sec.
- Geo
- 39.646, -75.872 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-childs-md-1966-cbdda4
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
- Childs, MD shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Maryland in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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