UFOMYST
CaseOval1977

Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Summer of 1977 I saw a large oval black object hovering just over the tree tops going very slowly.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-06-15
Where
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
39.143, -77.201 · exact
Slug
oval-over-gaithersburg-md-1977-de219d
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In context

  • One of 32 documented reports from Gaithersburg, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 8 sightings in 1977.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.9% during the 1970s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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