UFOMYST
CaseOval1947

Baltimore, MD, USA

I wasn't the only saw them

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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1947-06-30
Where
Baltimore, MD, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
8 sec
Geo
39.290, -76.612 · exact
Slug
oval-over-baltimore-md-1947-4b0d92
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1947

    The Summer of the Saucers

    United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)

    Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…

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In context

  • One of 147 documented reports from Baltimore, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 1 sightings in 1947.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.5% during the 1940s (archive average: 4.3%).

Report

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