Circle over ocean city, MD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My family and I went for a walk on the beach at night. While we were walking, I looked over to the ocean and saw a glowing orange circular object in the sky. It initially appeared large and seemed to be close to the beach. I pointed it out, and my family also looked over at it. Within seconds, it started moving further to the east until it disappeared from our view. Nothing else out of the ordinary happened after that, and that was the only UFO we saw.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176748). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-06-08 → 2022-06-25