CaseCircle2009
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
5 bright lights in the sky in a straight line
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-04-21
- Where
- Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 39.143, -77.201 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-gaithersburg-md-2009-d3f7ea
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- One of 32 documented reports from Gaithersburg, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
- Maryland logged 43 sightings in 2009.
- Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.