Size of Object(s): Two hands would have to cover it from a ground-to-air view. It was about a football field in diameter. It would fit over the old Redskin stadium like a pot top, but it couldn't have fit onto the field.
Distance to Object(s): It was just about the tree tops, so... 40-50 feet or ten stories high off the ground

Description of Area / Surroundings
Urban area, tree lined streets of NE Washington, DC. Fort Meade would have been the closest miilitary facility as far as I know.

Full Description & Details
This vessel looked like shiny aluminum foil, but was so shiny it almost looked liquid. The treetops were reflected in it. It hovered very close to me as I drove down Rhode Island Ave, NE. The traffic was bumper to bumper on a clear, sunny, Saturday at about noon.

I saw it when it approached from high up in the sky. I recall wondering why I could see a star in the blue daylit sky, and then the "star" got bigger, closer, and closer. It traveled along the traffic route of cars. This was a two lane section of road. The passengers in the car next to me (bumper-to-bumper) saw it too. I kept trying to creep driving along and look up at the same time. Other vehicles saw it too. I noticed the passenger in the car next to me was pushing on the driver's shoulder and pointing up. We all began to move forward a little and look up at this dome shaped, shiny, silver, HUGE thing that was following along with the traffic. I recall that I began to "get the creeps" like it was looking at ME! I began to pray, drive and then I was almost afraid to look right at it, it was so very close, just over the tree's. This area of the road was tree lined and I kept getting glimpses of it as my car passed along under the canapy of the trees. I recall also thinking: "Go away" and immediately, the thing began to slowly lift higher and fall back in speed. It stayed very still for a moment and then began to lift higher and move off steeply up and to my left. I watched so long that I almost slammed into the back of the car in front of me. When I looked for it again, it was way away, like miles and miles away and becoming a tiny silver dot again.

I began to honk my horn to the driver in the right lane next to me whose passenger had also seen this thing and was gesturing wildly in their car. We both pulled off into a convenience store. The man, the driver, went into the store. It was so hot that day and sunny. The woman stayed out front with me and we both talked about what we'd just seen. She said her husband was upset and wanted a soda. We both exchanged how and when we both noticed the craft and how it had to have been a UFO. Just then her husband came out of the store, visibly shaken; like un-nerved and said he didn't know what the "bleep" that was and he just wanted to get the 'bleep' home as fast as possible and not talk about it. The following Monday morning on the Bernie McCain show of radio WOL, he did a segment on how many people had called the station reporting seeing the UFO as far away as Maryland and all over the Washington, DC neighborhoods. He himself had been out of town, but was called at his home in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon by various friends, all reporting the same incident. He said when he arrived to the station on Monday morning, the phone messages about the 'sighting' was piled up on his desk, and the secretary said the message line had gone down from so many calls. I told friends about it who were in vehicles ahead of mine (we were on our way to my family reunion that day) and they had thier music on and due to other passengers having conversations in the car; had not seen anything unusual. However, I was driving alone and separated from them by two cars (behind them) and the above is all that I saw. I've told my husband and a few other people but no one believes me. I just finished watching the August 19, 2006 telecast of a National Geographic showing about UFO's and decided to "google" the date of July 11, 1993 and your website came up. I am a wife, mother, and grandmother; a good citizen and semi-retired Middle School English teacher. I am a Christian woman who is 50 years young, a non-drinker and non-drug user. I don't need glasses and have never been known to engage in "stunts" of any kind to seek attention. I don't know what it was, I have never seen metal like that before or since and I'm just glad to get this off my chest.

Thank you

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?
No Way!

Personal Background
Decorative artist, retired Middle School English teacher. College education.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting
Now I believe they exist. Before, as a kid, I wanted them to exist and hoped to see one.

Reported Sighting? Yes
Reported To: Husband, relatives, friends
Location: Nashville, TN
Age: 50