CaseLight1966

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
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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 days

Report

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