CaseSphere1958
Palmer Park, MD, USA
In 1958, a witness in Palmer Park, Maryland, reported a white spherical light zigzagging across the sky at extreme speed while leaving a glowing trail, for 15 to 20 minutes.
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (173 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1958-05-05
- Where
- Palmer Park, MD, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 15-20 min.
- Geo
- 38.921, -76.872 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-palmer-park-md-1958-015310
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Palmer Park, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 2 sightings in 1958.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.1% during the 1950s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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