UFOMYST
CaseFireball2006

Gaithersburg, MD, USA

I was driving in my neighborhood, at around 9:30 at night. The sky was clear. I was driving into my neighborhood from east to west. O

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-06-22
Where
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
15 Seconds
Geo
39.143, -77.201 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-gaithersburg-md-2006-cba0b8
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 33 Maryland reports filed in 2006.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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