Near Baltimore, MD being encounter — April 25, 1973

The Hatch catalogue places a sparse entity report near Baltimore, Maryland, on April 25, 1973, at approximately 9:30 p.m. Its compressed entry describes one observer seeing a three-legged figure beside railway tracks. It also refers to returns on several occasions and traces on the ground, but does not provide a continuous account explaining those remarks. The cited reference is Contact International’s annual UFO Register, with index 74. The available entry does not identify the observer, the railway, the figure’s height, colour, face or clothing, or who examined the alleged traces. It supplies no measurements, photographs, casts or test results for those marks. A flying object is explicitly absent from the catalogue’s classification, so an association with a spacecraft is not supported here. Searches for fuller Baltimore coverage did not establish a case-specific contemporary source. Similar three-legged-creature stories from elsewhere cannot safely supply missing details or justify moving this record to another state. Its Maryland location therefore remains unverified beyond the catalogue. The plate is explicitly contextual: one representative observer, railway surroundings and a shadowed three-legged form, without invented facial anatomy, an added craft or an evidentiary-looking footprint close-up.