CaseOval1999
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
LOW FLYING BLACK OVAL OBJECT WITH GREEN LIGHTS SEEN FLYING BY THE 270S EXIT OFF OF SHADY GROVE RD. IN GAITHERSBURG MARYLAND.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-15
- Where
- Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 39.143, -77.201 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-gaithersburg-md-1999-b1fbc7
In context
- Gaithersburg, MD has 32 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 30 reports from Maryland.
- The 1990s skewed 3.6% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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