CaseUnknown1996
Bethesda, MD, USA
Fed. empl. sees extremely bright "cylinder, or the side of something," hovering in sky. STREAKS off. Other fed. empls. observe.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-03-22
- Where
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 sec.
- Geo
- 38.981, -77.100 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-bethesda-md-1996-aed270
In context
- Bethesda, MD shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 19 reports came from Maryland in 1996.
Report
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