Light over Altamonte Springs, FL
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The report, as filed
A friend and I were sitting at the cranes roost, In Altamonte Springs. We were just sitting there after having gone for a brisk walk and I noticed something coming out of the sky from the East. There were three red lights moving in a westerly direction. It appeared they were in a formation. Behind them was another three, and then another three. At first it appeared that there was a total of 12. The first 12 one by one disappeared into the night sky. Then there appeared another set of 12 coming in formations of three. Those 12 disappeared into the sky too. There was no sound, no motion, no flickering of light. There was just 24 solid red lights that vanished into the sky.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #109451). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-05-16 → 2014-06-02
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