UFOMYST
CaseCigar1977

Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Close encounter with metallic craft near Gaithersburg, MD in 1977

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-01
Where
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
60 seconds
Geo
39.143, -77.201 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-gaithersburg-md-1977-9cd087
Wave

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In context

  • Gaithersburg, MD has 32 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 8 reports from Maryland.
  • The 1970s skewed 5.2% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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