UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2019

Thurmont, MD, USA

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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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-10-30
Where
Thurmont, MD, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
39.624, -77.411 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-thurmont-md-2019-95e88b
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Thurmont, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 70 sightings in 2019.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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