Unknown over Barnesville, MD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was spending Christmas Eve at my dad’s farm house and around 1:00 am I heard a loud buzzing sound hovering over my house that lasted for hours. A few hours go by and I hear what sounds like an unusual conversation between two beings in a strange language. We spoke via telephone with the young girl who submitted the report, and she assures us that it is accurate, and a sincere statement of fact, although we are unconvinced. She corrected the date to Christmas mornin, December 25th. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #138390). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-22 → 2018-01-08