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UFO Reported in Elkridge

A witness reported spotting an unidentified flying object on Marshalee Drive.

A driver on Marshalee Drive reported seeing an unidentified flying object (UFO) on Tuesday evening. 

While passing the golf course around 11 p.m. on Dec. 20, the driver saw “a huge basketball sized shiny black triangle craft“ with “alternating red, white, and green lights on the corners,” according to a report filed with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).

MUFON is a nonprofit that catalogs UFO sightings in North America and deploys people to investigate them; it states that 9 out of 10 sightings can be explained.

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According to the witness in Elkridge, the UFO had a “box-shaped structure behind it” that “followed its every move."

The person who reported seeing the UFO on Marshalee Drive offered a few potential explanations: “Either the government knows what appeared in the Maryland skies tonight or that was an alien craft or maybe Santa is real. My money is on the government running missions with aliens.”

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Read the full report here.

There was also a UFO spotted on Dec. 18.


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