CaseSphere1953
Bowleys Quarters, MD, USA
A witness in Bowleys Quarters, Maryland reported multiple sphere-shaped objects holding stationary formation, then departing one by one at extreme speed, over three to four minutes in August 1953.
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (196 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1953-08-15
- Where
- Bowleys Quarters, MD, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3-4 min
- Geo
- 39.335, -76.390 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bowleys-quarters-md-1953-84e980
In context
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Bowleys Quarters, MD.
- This case is one of 1 Maryland reports filed in 1953.
- Sphere craft made up 5.1% of 1950s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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