Formation over Longmont, CO
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Two sets of faint orange lights appering to each be silently flying in v formations
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June 15, 2021 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
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May 6, 2021 · 8:43 PM · LIGHT
Longmont, CO
Lights very high in the sky moving aircraft speed moving from SW to NE direction. Evenly spaced in a straight line, appeared to be same height as a star but definitely much higher than aircraft. The lights seem to be diffused. There were about a dozen first pass, then slowly one by one faded out in the sky. About 10 minutes later they appeared again near the same star as first sighting, only there were many more this time. Still seeming to be in formation but with a couple of them spaced closer together. There were 30 or more this time which led me to believe maybe they were flying in a large circle. It was hard to decide if it was a large circle or if there were that many more flying in a straight line. No other aircraft visible in the sky at this time however aircraft sighted several minutes after disappearance of sited crafts. The lights did not vary in brightness but they were not as bright as aircraft or stars. I was looking NW when i first spotted them.
March 6, 2021 · 6:00 PM · CHEVRON
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Saturday night March 6, 8pm. East side of main street, Longmont, CO. Stepped outside to bring laundry to laundry room at my apt. Looked up at the stars like I always enjoy doing. Was facing south looking at Orion constellation when I noticed movement in lower left part of my view. I turned eyes toward movement and locked onto very large, wide, V shaped craft moving south. Had single row of lights on belly side of wings of craft. There is no fusalage, it's just a V. Estimated altitude possibly 5000 feet. Hard to tell, but pretty high up. Wing span 3 times as wide as average passenger jet. Lights were faded almostly ghostly lit. Similar to a glow in the dark frisbee or football faded brightness. Hard to see unless you are really focusing on it. Definitely one single solid object, not multiple objects in V formation. Smooth gliding movement, no sound at all, no blinking marker lights. I have seen this craft 2 other times in Longmont. Last time I saw this with ! my son when he was 2. We saw this thing very low to the ground, maybe 500 feet stationary hovering above houses. Then it seemed to react to me pointing at it, and it flew towards us and directly over us. That was my 2nd sighting. I noticed then it was transparent, or cloaked, could see the background stars distort around it's edges as it moved. Similar to the Predator in that movie with Arnold. You see the predator better when it is moving in invisibility cloaking because the background distortion around it's edges. Again seeing this much closer up that time, absolutely no sound, no fire, no afterburners. Very smooth movement like melted ice on a counter top. Very large football field size craft. Was bigger than my entire apt. building. I reported that 2nd sighting to Mufon years ago. funny coincidence or not is last time I saw this was Saturday,March 21, 2015 at 8-8:30pm. Tonight i saw it much higher up Saturday, March 6, 2021, 8pm. Same month, Sat. night, same time fram! e. Not sure if that relates to anything. I did not have my pho! ne on me , was not expecting to see it. No pictures no video. Even if I had my phone, I was so distracted by looking at the object, by the time my brain tells me pull out phobe to get on camera, it is out of sight. Plus camera phones might not even pick this up that far up in sky at night. Nobody on Earth can ever debunk sightings I have had or convince me it was misidentification of any known craft. People that have never had a sighting really have no say in the matter at all untill you see something yourself. The notion of needing empirical evidence to prove what I say I saw is nonsense, dumb, neanderthal arrogant thinking. I'm not saying this is alien or not, my sense is this is man made secret military craft. Super stealth surveillance platform with some crazy camaflouge or invisibilty cloaking technology. People want to debunk my thoughts leaning to man made craft and argue that humans don't have that capability, again arrigant closed minded clueless accusation. Reality exists ! in it's true form regardless of peoples opinions. There is disinformation campaign to convince the public to automatically think exotic ufo sightings are always alien to distract from the reality that the military has technology far advanced than they admit.