CaseCylinder2022
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Possible UFO sighting.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (22 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-04-21
- Where
- Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- about 10 minutes
- Geo
- 39.143, -77.201 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-gaithersburg-md-2022-66ab6b
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
- Gaithersburg, MD shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 11 reports came from Maryland in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
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.