CaseSphere1988
Edgewood, MD, USA
Edgewood, MD boy sees a chrome sphere move laterally across sky and change directions near the Edgewood Arsenal Army base.
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1988-05-15
- Where
- Edgewood, MD, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 39.419, -76.294 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-edgewood-md-1988-8c39b1
In context
- Edgewood, MD shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Maryland in 1988.
- In the 1980s, 8.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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