UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2017

Germantown, MD, USA

A rectangle formed by six lights zoomed across the sky disappearing into the clouds. ((anonymous report))

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-25
Where
Germantown, MD, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
~1 minute
Geo
39.173, -77.272 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-germantown-md-2017-9fe639
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

  • Germantown, MD shows up 16 times across the archive.
  • 94 reports came from Maryland in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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