As reported

Oval over Kensington, MD

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

Reflective oval seen hovering over Washington D.C.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1950-06-04 → 1950-06-21

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March 30, 2020 · 8:47 PM · CIRCLE

Kensington, MD

At around 8:47 pm tonight I noticed 4 perfectly aligned stars. They were to the west of Venus. Curious as to what they were, stars or planets, I finished putting out the trash, continued to stare at them and went inside to look online about them. Finding nothing, I took my camera out to try to photograph them. At 8:50 or 8:51 I was back out and there they were, but immediately began to lightly hover, the bottom two most notably. Then all four seemingly distant stars started to move at perfectly measured intervals from each other. The bottom two performed a strange half circular manoeuvre with each other and then quickly followed - perfectly straight and completely quiet- the first two objects. Their pace was powerful and seemed to have a forcefulness about them that you do not sense when watching airplanes/jets. They had no blinking lights.

August 19, 2019 · 4:00 AM · OTHER

Kensington, MD

i got up from sleep to go to the bathroom afterwards i was looking out the third floor window at the woods in back of the house looking for nocturnal animals. i saw a blink out of the corner of my right eye and immediately thought it was a lightning bug because it was in the tree line. Then there was a much larger blink that had the shape of a twinkie. It pulsed about like a light on the top of a tower. Not rapid like collision lights on a jet. There was a low cloud cover and whatever this was was slightly in the clouds, low. We live in the flight path for Reagan nat airport so i am used to seeing commercial aircraft. Usually in fog the aircraft turn on their landing lights. I think i have seen a plane where the collision avoidance lights strobed together, although what i saw moved slow and pulsed slowly and the whole object was the same brightness. There was no noise and it was low probably 600 feet AGL. No navigation lights either. also the path that it was traveling i should have seen it sooner b/c it would have gone in front of me which it just sort of started it pulse run to my right.

November 19, 2013 · 8:20 PM · FIREBALL