CaseDisk1977
Rockville, MD, USA
I saw a flying saucer.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (22 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-16
- Where
- Rockville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 39.084, -77.153 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-rockville-md-1977-90b423
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 36 reports logged in Rockville, MD.
- This case is one of 8 Maryland reports filed in 1977.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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