CaseCircle1968
Wheaton, MD, USA
Woke up by loud noise, parents said to come out and see the object. i was 9 or so at time. i remember red sphere hovering in one place
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-01-01
- Where
- Wheaton, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.040, -77.055 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wheaton-md-1968-460e12
In context
- Wheaton, MD shows up 8 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Maryland in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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