Cigar over Derwood, MD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was leaving to go to a restaurant with my family and while walking up to the car. I saw the UFO. It was cigar shaped, grey, with red and orange lights. It moved slower than a plane. I went into the car and my Dad asked what I was looking at. I told him, and as an ex-pilot he could' not identify it. We started driving and I saw it again, but I soon lost track of it. The UFO was silent I took pictures, but they are blurry and just look like a white dot.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120645). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-07-20 → 2015-08-06