UFOMYST
CaseDisk1973

Gaithersburg, MD, USA

A report from Gaithersburg, MD in May 1973 described a disk-shaped object with sequentially flashing green lights around its perimeter, flying low, lasting 3-4 minutes.

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (168 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-05-01
Where
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
39.143, -77.201 · exact
Slug
disk-over-gaithersburg-md-1973-d75067
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

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In context

  • Gaithersburg, MD shows up 32 times across the archive.
  • 9 reports came from Maryland in 1973.
  • In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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