Light over Jefferson, MD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We were riding on the bike and looked up at the mountain and saw 7 red lights coming down the side of the mountain. When we got closer they were in the fields, when were got under them they were just red individual lights and you could see the stars between them. After we past we looked back and they disappeared one at a time.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #110869). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-06-28 → 2014-07-15
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