diff --git a/receiver/fluentforwardreceiver/conversion.go b/receiver/fluentforwardreceiver/conversion.go
index 1a9233ba195c..a57d9a972a7e 100644
--- a/receiver/fluentforwardreceiver/conversion.go
+++ b/receiver/fluentforwardreceiver/conversion.go
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ func parseToAttributeValue(val interface{}, dest pcommon.Value) {
 
 func timeFromTimestamp(ts interface{}) (time.Time, error) {
 	switch v := ts.(type) {
+	case uint64:
+		return time.Unix(int64(v), 0), nil
 	case int64:
 		return time.Unix(v, 0), nil
 	case *eventTimeExt:
diff --git a/receiver/fluentforwardreceiver/conversion_test.go b/receiver/fluentforwardreceiver/conversion_test.go
index 06974289c59d..f15e99de8d79 100644
--- a/receiver/fluentforwardreceiver/conversion_test.go
+++ b/receiver/fluentforwardreceiver/conversion_test.go
@@ -165,17 +165,6 @@ func TestMessageEventConversionWithErrors(t *testing.T) {
 			require.NotNil(t, err)
 		})
 	}
-
-	t.Run("Invalid timestamp type uint", func(t *testing.T) {
-		in := make([]byte, len(b))
-		copy(in, b)
-		in[8] = 0xcd
-		reader := msgp.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(in))
-
-		var event MessageEventLogRecord
-		err := event.DecodeMsg(reader)
-		require.NotNil(t, err)
-	})
 }
 
 func TestForwardEventConversionWithErrors(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/unreleased/fluentforwardreceiver-uint64-fix.yaml b/unreleased/fluentforwardreceiver-uint64-fix.yaml
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..479b229ab754
--- /dev/null
+++ b/unreleased/fluentforwardreceiver-uint64-fix.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: bug_fix
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. filelogreceiver)
+component: fluentforwardreceiver
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: added case to handle uint64 timestamp
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [ 11435 ]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext: