UFOMYST
CaseCircle2011

Gaithersburg, MD, USA

I was in the back seat of a moving vehicle in Gaithersburg, Maryland when I saw a bright, gold, circular object to the east

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-01-16
Where
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 miuntes
Geo
39.143, -77.201 · exact
Slug
circle-over-gaithersburg-md-2011-dc2e9e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 32 reports logged in Gaithersburg, MD.
  • This case is one of 74 Maryland reports filed in 2011.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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