CaseRectangle1979
Columbia, MD, USA
Large, low-flying, slow moving, silent black rectangle with no lights
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-10-01
- Where
- Columbia, MD, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 39.240, -76.839 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-columbia-md-1979-d345df
In context
- Columbia, MD has 27 sightings on file here.
- 1979 brought 5 reports from Maryland.
- The 1970s skewed 2.3% rectangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
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.