Circle over Jessup, MD

The report, as filed

At about 5:25am on 3/11/2022 I got out of bed to get a glass of water. Because of where I live I rarely see stars at night (to bright -I live between DC and Baltimore). I returned back to bed and I instantly noticed a very bright white object in the sky. The brightness of the object did not change in intensity nor did it blink or change color - just a very solid white object. It was perfectly circular in shape. I would estimate that it was probably a few miles away and was at about a 45 degree angle in the night sky. It wasn’t the moon as this was object was much smaller then the moon. It remained stationary for about 5 minutes and then it started to move rather slowly on a horizontal axis, right to left, stopped, remained stationary, and then moved left to right and would come to a complete stop. It did this for about 10 minutes. After these 10 minutes it started to move again on a horizontal axis, except now it was moving at a much higher speed. When moving at this increased speed the object “wobbled” a lot. Again it moved left to right, would come to a complete stop and then would move left to right. I tried to capture this object on a video using my IPhone but I didn’t have any luck. After about a total of about 20 minutes the object accelerated at a very high speed up into the night sky and disappeared within a few seconds. I was able to take a couple of pictures of the object and am attaching a couple of them.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #168569). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.