UFOMYST
CaseOther2004

Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Brilliant green comet or meteor

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-12-11
Where
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
39.143, -77.201 · exact
Slug
other-over-gaithersburg-md-2004-18b1e9
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Gaithersburg, MD shows up 32 times across the archive.
  • 44 reports came from Maryland in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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.