CaseFormation2000
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Three yellow/white lights moving in formation in north-south direction, then suddenly shifting positions within the formation.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-03-07
- Where
- Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 39.143, -77.201 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-gaithersburg-md-2000-112368
In context
- Gaithersburg, MD shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 27 reports came from Maryland in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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.