As reported

Flash over Frostburg, MD

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

The report, as filed

I was driving on I-68 on top of a mountain a blue flash shot across the sky and was out of sight in a split second.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #138048). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

Ask for the records

What would the paper say?

For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.

Commission this request on Aletheca →

Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-26 → 2018-01-12

From the same sky

Related entries

August 26, 2022 · 2:07 AM · CYLINDER

Frostburg, MD

Taking my dog out around two am in Klondike md off to my east over Frostburg area I witnessed two strange objects giving off a goldfish light with one moving towards and away from the first both similar in size and shape I observed for a few mins and tried to take pics or video with my phone but could not focus on them to get a clear view I watched for about 6-12 mins when my dog began to growl and try to get in the house without me at that time I decided to get inside there were no blinking lights like a plane and no sounds coming from the objects

September 17, 2015 · 7:15 PM · CHANGING

Frostburg, MD

While heading west on I-68 just west of the mountainous Garrett/Allegany County, Maryland, line, at about 19:15 EDT on 9-17-2015, my 8 year old daughter and I were chasing the sunset. We exited the freeway after cresting Big Savage Mountain at the Finzel Road exit as the sun set through the trees. My daughter exclaimed “What is that light?”. Sure enough, 15-20 degrees north of the now just set sun was a bright yellow light 15-20 degrees above the horizon. At the time it appeared stationary and higher than it was wide. We continued west on U.S. 40 for 3-4 minutes until we could pull over at a local business on Long Stretch to get the binoculars out (not the best binoculars but functional), with a full view of the horizon. It appeared to be a bright yellow arch seen at an oblique angle, probably reflecting the setting sun. We observed it for 6-8 minutes, sharing the binoculars, when it disappeared. It reappeared within 2-3 minutes but had now totally changed shape and color. With the naked eye, it was just a bright orangeish light. With the binoculars, it looked like a dark oblong object in a horizontal position with a bright reddish light at the center base, and appeared to have moved 2-3 degrees to the southeast. It was more than Venus bright. A female patron of the business saw us and came to see what we were doing and saw this version, as well. It lasted 4-5 minutes and disappeared again. Another 2-3 minutes later, it appeared a couple of more degrees to the southeast (co! ming slightly towards us and moving to our left) for another 2-3 minutes, until disappearing for good. There were no contrails but a couple of jets with contrails were visible to the west during the same time period and also clearly reflected the sun. Weather was clear and high sixties with a very light haze (smog from Ohio River valley?) Any suggestions or similar sitings?

July 4, 2015 · 11:18 PM · SPHERE

Frostburg, MD

Parked in front of my house, got out of car and faced east where the sun rises and seen two very large craft. Glowing a vibrant orange and each having 4 lights facing us at all times in a diamond shape on the craft. If the lights where a compass east and west would red lights while south and north would be white lights. All of our phones where dead so I got my neighbor to come out with her phone and record it. We have about a two minute video of this. The lights where mesmerizing and seemed to be blinking in a counter clockwise rotation. As the original two moved left and right up and down in a fashion that is impossible of any known technology or aircraft known to man, they where completely silent, as the two headed due south and left the atmosphere with a small flash they rendered on the same path the took the first time only this time a third caught up with them from the same path about 4 to 5 seconds behind them. As they entered the atmosphere and where further away, they actually appeared larger than when they got close, maybe from the heat and extreme tempature of the air around the craft as it entered the atmosphere they all three eventually met up in a reverse delta formation and left the atmosphere. At same time directly under them I witnessed what seemed to be an orb comeout of a house and shoot into the street light. I have video of this from a cell phone. All this happened in the course of about 4 mins.

February 25, 2013 · 10:30 PM · CHEVRON