Light over Sharptown, MD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My husband and I were inside our home when we heard a very loud low rumble from the sky. ( we have been hearing this same rumble for over 90 days since moving to this area, but we could never see anything day or night) This night, we ran out side and low and behold saw 6 or more blinking white lights all over the western sky. They disappeared and so did the rumble shortly after. About 30 seconds later the rumble came back very loud and this time had a weird electronic sounding pitch with it, above our heads and then seconds later the lights appeared again. They made different formations of half circles, triangles and angles. We checked the flightware/flight tracker radar to see if there were any planes in our immediate area, it tracks both domestic passenger flights and military. There were no planes in our vicinity for over 50 miles. We were practically up all night in awe talking about what we just witnessed. Witness provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137922). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-16 → 2018-01-02
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