CaseSphere1998
Ellicott City, MD, USA
glowing golden with red flashes at 78 degrees north east. Alt about 2000 feet . had wobbling effect when red fashes occoured about eve
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-28
- Where
- Ellicott City, MD, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 06:00
- Geo
- 39.267, -76.798 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-ellicott-city-md-1998-0bcd69
In context
- Ellicott City, MD shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 14 reports came from Maryland in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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