October 26, 1958 — Loch Raven Reservoir, MD
10:30 p.m. Alvin Cohen and Phillip Small are rounding a curve on Maryland Route 146 some 600–900 feet south of the bridge at Loch Raven Reservoir, Maryland. They see a large (100 feet long) egg-shaped object hanging 100–150 feet above the bridge. When they drive to within 75 feet of it their car stalls and the dash lights turn off. They get out of the car and watch the UFO from behind it for 30–45 seconds. The UFO flashes a beam of white light and they feel heat on their faces. They also hear a dull explosion. The UFO rises vertically and disappears in 5–10 seconds. They are able to start the car and drive into Towson, Maryland, to make a phone call to the Ground Observer Corps and the police. Police Cpl. Kenneth Hartmann and Patrolman Richard Fink drive up and they tell them the story, then they go to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Baltimore and are given a cursory examination for burns. Other people in the neighborhood either see an object at the time or hear the boom. [Eberhart]
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Sources:
“Baltimore’s Flying Saucer,” Baltimore (Md.) Evening Sun, December 15, 1958, p. 21;
A. Schopick, A Study of Secondary Effects, pp. 62–64;
Jacques and Janine Vallée, Challenge to Science, Neville Spearman, 1966, pp. 191-194;
Alan W. Sharp, “UFO Evidence in an American Reservoir?” Merseyside UFO Bulletin 6, no. 1 (1973): 3–5;
J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 132, 139–140, 259;
Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1958 October, The Author, 1999, pp, 73–86;
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 1350, p. 268;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 686;
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 761–762;
NICAP, “Egg-Shaped Object & E-M Effects over Bridge”;