CaseFireball1957
Bainbridge/ Port Deposit, MD, USA
Midwatch spots Fireball headed directly toward barracks.No time to wake shipmates or get out of the way.
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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-08-04
- Where
- Bainbridge/ Port Deposit, MD, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 22sec
- Geo
- 38.392, -75.174 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bainbridge-port-deposit-md-1957-b7ec5c
In context
- Bainbridge/ Port Deposit, MD shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Maryland in 1957.
- In the 1950s, 3.9% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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