Oval over Dulles, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I’d say the size of a blimp and looked like A blimp but it was a dull tin color with nothing written on it . I was going to reach for my phone when I did t want to miss what I was looking at .. as I made the U-turn it was gone .. I pulled maybe 75 feet into the parking lot from where I saw it and there was nothing there anymore ... Military experiment ??That part of the airport there isn’t really anything there going on ... Definitely was gone as if nothing ever happened within seconds
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #162774). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-04-16 → 2019-05-03