District Heights, MD, USA
Near District Heights, Maryland in June 1966, a driver reported a disk-shaped object that coincided with their vehicle stalling on a lonely, tree-lined road, for three to five 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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (184 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-01
- Where
- District Heights, MD, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 to 5 minutes
- Geo
- 38.858, -76.889 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-district-heights-md-1966-545028
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
- District Heights, MD shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Maryland in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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