UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Marlboro, MD, USA

Traveling east along rt50 into Washington D.C from Maryland(20 minutes outside of d.c.). As I was traveling down rt 50 to my left, witn

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-15
Where
Marlboro, MD, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
40 seconds
Geo
40.315, -74.246 · fallback
Slug
circle-over-marlboro-md-1997-d77f08
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • Marlboro, MD shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 13 reports came from Maryland in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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