Formation over White Oak, MD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Was driving down south on a 3-lane highway around 5 in the afternoon when I noticed 5 dark triangular shapes in the sky moving slowly in a V formation plus 2 separate triangles directly in front of the 5. The other 2 were side by side. All were headed west. I instinctively slowed down and I noticed another car to my left did the same thing. The other driver was also looking at the triangles in the sky. After about 3 minutes, the triangles stopped moving and then seemed to disappear one by one, until they were all gone. I turned to look at the other driver and we looked at each other and we both made the same puzzled gesture. The objects did not look like any aircraft that I've seen before. They did not emit any lights.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #151776). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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