Jarrettsville, MD, USA
Two large, 30' diameter spheres of light appx. 30' apart, appx 20-30' overhead, seen by 60? people, passing slowly overhead silently, n
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-07-01
- Where
- Jarrettsville, MD, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 39.605, -76.478 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-jarrettsville-md-1966-d7c2aa
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Jarrettsville, MD.
- This case is one of 5 Maryland reports filed in 1966.
- Light craft made up 11.3% of 1960s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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