Changing over Navy yard, DC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
There was this really shiny object in the sky that kept changing shape. I took a video and you can clearly see it changing shape or almost flipping around. It looked like a metallic rectangle then a ballon.. I can’t explain it. Later around 6:50 the same shining bright light has been reappearing and sits in the same spot then disappearing.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172709). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-10-27 → 2022-11-13