Disk over Bowie, MD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Unusual object seen from different viewpoints.
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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Sightings from the Project Blue Book era (through 1969) live in Record Group 341 at the National Archives. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1956-03-17 → 1956-04-03
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December 18, 2022 · 6:00 AM · CIRCLE
Bowie, MD
I noticed a bright fuzzy ball of light moving in the sky while taking my daughter to work early Sunday morning . At first I thought it was a plane but the object was traveling in the same direction as me. It stopped mid flight, hovered for a few seconds than disappeared. I asked my daughter if she saw what I saw but she was on her phone. The morning sky was partially cloudy but star were clearly visible.
October 16, 2022 · 12:55 AM · CIRCLE
Bowie, MD
Received "Person Detected" alert from Vivint doorbell 12:55 AM 10/16/2022. Recorded video attached.
September 4, 2021 · 3:15 AM · TRIANGLE
Bowie, MD
Saturday September 4th, 2021 Awoke to dog barking (as usual) at around 0315. Looked out my door window after going downstairs. Door faces directly south. Noticed unusually bright light in distance just above tree line. This is within urban city neighborhood. Object was very far off, almost appeared to be a planet or other star, but noticed Object "floating" around, moving slightly in a non rhythmic or patterned way. Wife observed Object after I made the risky decision to wake her. I continued to observe the Object for almost 2 hours until it slightly descended and gradually faded away toward the south. Object appeared to be triangular in shape. During the observation multiple photos and videos were taken from a samsung galaxy phone. Position and movement of object over time clearly shows it was not following a trajectory or orbit. Object would fade and brighten multiple times. Weather was clear skies with little to no cloud coverage. Other stars and planets in sky were clearly visible. Using the Skyview app, the object appeared at first to be Bunda, a star in the Aquarius constellation. However, the movement and brightness of the object did not align with that theory.
May 18, 2017 · 3:15 PM · LIGHT
Bowie, MD
The sky was clear and blue. at 3:15PM I was driving east on Route 50 from D.C. towards Bowie, and a very bright (stronger in intensity than, say, Venus) light suddenly appeared in the distant sky straight ahead at a 45-degrees position over the horizon, for approximately twenty five to thirty seconds. Since Route 50 was congested I could only glance at it about five or six times during the 25-second period. Each glance lasted about two to five seconds. Then it was gone--just vanished. I continued to watch where it had been until I got to Route 301 to turn off and there was no plane or dark object that would indicate an aerial vehicle producing it. When I got home I checked the map and it appeared to have been high over Annapolis or Edgewater, Maryland, a distance of 17 miles from where I saw it. But that's a guess--it could have been farther away.
July 10, 2016 · 2:21 AM · UNKNOWN
Bowie, MD
Woke up to see a bright yellow light coming through my bedroom window. It remained still for a few moments. I thought it was a helicopter search light but it was so close to the window I would have heard the chopper blades. And the light was too powerful for a drone.
September 2, 2014 · 12:00 PM · LIGHT
Bowie, MD
I was driving to work on route 214. There were big clouds in the sky ahead of me, and there was something whitish and shiny moving toward them. I say shiny because the sun was reflecting off of it. When it got in front of the cloud I could not longers see it. I'm almost certain it disappeared.