As reported

Diamond over Plainwell, MI

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The report, as filed

Diamond-shpae object in the Southeastern sky, heading northwest at a underterminate speed.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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My husband and I go out at night on a regular basis and lay in our loungers to look at the stars. It was ten minutes after midnight, when these bright glowing orbs came out of the southeast, moving northwest. There were four orbs lined up following each other spaced evenly apart. Extremely bright yellow center with a glowing red flare. All the same size and looked identical. We live in an area with a lot of trees so they disappeared beyond the trees and then we turned around and saw the fifth one that was much further back. It looked identical and followed the same path. There was no sound. We looked for a structure that the lights might have been attached to but there was not. The lights were independent of each other. It is hard to determine the height but they were above the large oaks but lower than you would typically see a small flying airplane. I am the same person who reported two orange globes back in November 2015.

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Plainwell, MI

My husband and I went out to watch the meteor shower and were laying in our lounge chairs watching the night sky. We are used to seeing many comercial airplanes fly overhead and have also watched the ISS many times. From the south we noticed a low bright orange light coming toward us. My husband said that must be the ISS and I said that it seemed too low and too bright. Suddenly we noticed a second orange light following the first. They moved overhead in a straight line with no sound. The light was not blinking and moved quickly through the sky. I estimate that we watched it move north for about 20-30 seconds, until we could no longer see it.

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