CaseCircle1979
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
silver gold disc flew over Montgomery County Fairgrounds left to right, did a 90 degree upwards and disappeared
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-08-15
- Where
- Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.143, -77.201 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-gaithersburg-md-1979-367762
In context
- Gaithersburg, MD shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Maryland in 1979.
- In the 1970s, 10.5% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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