Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Nine unidentified flying objects in the night sky flying very slowly in single file and emitting no sound.
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-04
- Where
- Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 39.143, -77.201 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-gaithersburg-md-2012-5eb101
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.
- 110 reports came from Maryland in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 0.7% of reports described a egg — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
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.