Disk over College Park, MD
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The report, as filed
In College Park, Maryland me along with 3 other people were sitting in the courtyard area of lounge chairs in the center of a large apartment building complex. After our conversation ended, we heard a very loud aircraft noise that caught our attention. Then, we watched a large disc shaped aircraft fly above us and we were all mesmerized as we watched it fly over for the next 3 to 5 seconds. It probably wouldn’t have caught my attention as easily if it were just a normal plane, but it wasn’t normal. It was flying too low to the ground to be a normal plane because it seemed like it was right above the tree line. The large disc had several red lights that seemed like they were leading into the middle of the aircraft. It wasn’t moving at an extremely fast speed like a lot of UFO sightings are, but it was going fast enough to the point where we were only able to analyze it for a few seconds and then it was gone.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #158714). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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