UFOMYST
CaseLight2005

Gaithersburg, MD, USA

SAW FLYING OBJECT AND IT DISSAPPEARD RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES!

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-12-28
Where
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10 SECONDS
Geo
39.143, -77.201 · exact
Slug
light-over-gaithersburg-md-2005-29332e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 32 documented reports from Gaithersburg, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 40 sightings in 2005.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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