2001-09-19 - Westminster West, MD - Other

Working out on the veranda, late AM, I was bent over a small landscape planter which is perpendicular to my home at the veranda end. I was pulling some weeds when I then felt like someone was watching me and turned my head ~90 degrees and notice an object hovering quietly behind my left shoulder in my periheral vision. Somewhat startled, I stood up and took closer look, turning toward due South noting its odd shape, distance (300~500ft and at an altitude of about 300ft above a large hill at the adjoiner property to the rear of my property), color, relative size and movement. I continued to bend back down in amazement, I mentally felt like there was an intelligence scanning me, but I heard no sound.

I looked back up in awe to see that the object had vanished.

Recount of obvservation VIZ.: =========================== Shape: like a large "baloon-like" or giant "blimp" with smoothed edges but of a fishlike shape with a verticle fin like rear contiquos to a bulbous body/nose.

Attitude: Still, Maintained a Verticle attitude through its local Nadir, motionless on a Bi-symetrical Horizontal Angle, parallel with my porch Color: Grey Metallic Texture: Smooth-Seemless Reflective: Nil Luminosity: None Markings: None Size: approx. 75ft-100ft long and about 35ft to 40ft high Duration of Observation: approx. 5 sec.

Motion/Speed: Motionless/0 No rate of change, when I turned away I felt like I was being watched and then scanned, turned to confirm the incident and the object quietly vanished from site.

Odor/Smoke/Radiation: None Recurrance: None

((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact. We assume he implies a date in the year 2001, and we have amended the date above. PD))