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As reported

Oval over Mercersberg, PA

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

The report, as filed

My husband and I observed an oval object in the sky, not moving. At first we thought it was a star but it was daytime and this object was very bright, no clouds in the sky and no aircraft at first. My husband got the camera, zoomed in as close as he could and started taking photos....he took a lot of photos cause he wasn't sure he was getting the pics. He looked at pics and zoomed in and realized that the object was definitely there. The last photo he took was a sideview, the other 2 appeared to be of the bottom of the object. Then a jet was coming into the area and the object disappeared, so my husband went to get our neighbors and told them about it and showed them the pic. The object came back but in a different area in the sky, my husband got his pair of binoculars and we all 4 got to look at the object, this time it looked round and still very bright and changed location again....it seems to be hovering near Camp David. My husband has seen other questionable objects, but this is the first time where he had witnesses to what he saw. My husband is former military, he knows what he sees and this was not military aircraft. We do have photos but I don't know if I can download them correctly to see the image. My husband is going to get the photos processed and will be available upon request.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #118413). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-04-08 → 2015-04-25