UFOMYST
CaseDisk1977

Beltsville, MD, USA

I'm guessing the time of year and date because we were young.My cousin and I were around the age of 11 (myself) and 8 years old at time

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-08-01
Where
Beltsville, MD, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
39.035, -76.907 · exact
Slug
disk-over-beltsville-md-1977-fa00c1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

    Colares & Operação Prato

    Ilha de Colares and the Baixo Amazonas, Pará, Brazil

    The most physically aggressive wave on record. Luminous objects — locals called them 'chupa-chupa' (sucker-sucker) — descended nightly over fishing villages, projecting beams that left burns, puncture marks, anemia and…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Beltsville, MD has 5 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 8 reports from Maryland.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.