Light over Brooklyn Park, MD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At around 22:00 EST I made my way outside and noticed a flashing bright red light to the north east. At first I thought it was just a plane but the object did not move. I went inside and grabbed my daughter to show her the object and when I returned the light had changed colors as well as the position of the light source but had not moved. I had two more adults join me outside to ask what they thought of the light. After two minutes of watching the light change color the object began to move at a seemingly instantaneous speed to the south west then slightly back north before heading south west again and stopping before the object turned to a red color again. While trying to get a better view of the object which was now behind a tree we could see the object go from a red color to a green and then to a white before disappearing after being visible for four minutes.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #142517). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-07-29 → 2018-08-15
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