Smithsburg, MD, USA
It was 10:00 p.m. at night, I when to sleep and then about at 3:00 a.m., a type of alein came up over my bunck bed and tapped me on my
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-01
- Where
- Smithsburg, MD, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- Sleeping
- Geo
- 39.655, -77.573 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-smithsburg-md-1997-490f9d
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Smithsburg, MD shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 13 reports came from Maryland in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.