Cone over Silver Spring, MD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Was leaving shopping center with my brother and saw objects in sky for less than a minute when it disappeared. Sky was clear, no clouds around. Very bright
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172015). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-09-21 → 2022-10-08
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October 2, 2023 · 1:03 PM · OTHER
Silver Spring, MD
On Monday October 2nd, I saw multiple streaks of light/star/cloud trails enter the atmosphere. This was around 1p.m. At first I thought it was airplanes or satellites but the streaks would come straight down or come in diagonally, and go straight into a cloud. Sometimes coming out sometimes not. Or hover and get smaller and disappear. Around 6:15 the same evening, two streaks came down, one behind the other, stopped in mid air, and joined together. There was no trail; they now looked like stars. Just hovering. (The one streak came down and joined with the other that had stooped mid-air). Another streak hovered then very slowly turned around and went back up into the sky into a cloud directly above it. These seem to have consciousness. There was a round metallic sphere that went into a cloud nearby (and did not come back out while I watched) in the same vicinity around the time all these streaks were coming into the atmosphere. I only saw that once. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Probable]
February 22, 2023 · 8:15 PM · DISK
Silver Spring, MD
It was a clear night sky, no clouds in sight, and as we were getting off the highway in a fairly rural part of Maryland, we saw an oval shaped object outlined by a bright turquoise colored ring light that was flying over us. This object was clearly the shape of a disk, as outlined by the blue light it was emitting, and you could see its disk form because the sky was clear enough to do so. It also flew across much faster than a plane, and it was too rural for anyone to operate a drone, so it wasn't a drone either.
April 10, 2020 · 9:00 AM · OVAL
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July 11, 2018 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Silver Spring, MD
After watching for a while, we saw that it moved jerkily in a closed pattern, not a circle, but going all the way around. After watching a while longer, we went to our apartment at Riderwood Village, turned off the lights and saw it through the window. I am a physicist so I know it was not a satellite (because of the jerky motion) and not a star (same reason), so the question is "what is it?".
June 29, 2017 · 4:36 AM · CIRCLE
Silver Spring, MD
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June 29, 2017 · 4:20 AM · LIGHT
Silver Spring, MD
I was looking out the window of the fifth floor of my condo at a cloudy sky, when four round lights appeared, arranged, as if they were spaced on a large, perfect square. The lights looked as if they were the size of a dime, from this distance. The size of the square looked at is it were two inches from this distance. They were shining through the clouds and were bright and colorless. The location was 124 degrees SE. I watched then slowly fade and another set formed below the, of the same size, bur slightly overlapping the fading lights. I searched for my iPhone and took three pictures. By then there was only light traces and one more bright light. I can make the pictures available for study, if you give me the email address. The square configuration was already faint when I took the pictures. Rocket launch from Wallops Island. PD