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CaseTriangle2012

Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Large triangle red and green lights over Gaithersburg MD, Wed Feb 15, 2012 (~19:43)

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-02-15
Where
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
minutes at least
Geo
39.143, -77.201 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-gaithersburg-md-2012-8a554e
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…

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In context

  • Gaithersburg, MD has 32 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 110 reports from Maryland.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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