Circle over Temecula, CA

The report, as filed

At about 9:45 p.m., I went out front of my house to have a cigarette. I looked north towards my neighbor's house and noticed bright orange-rust colored lights, possibly over Corona, California. I wear glasses to correct my vision so I took off my glasses to make sure it wasn't an optical illusion on my lenses. The lights were still there. I put my glasses back on and watched as 3 orange lights danced around what looked like a commercial airliner. I could tell it was an airliner because of the red and white strobe lights and the slow movement of the craft. They looked almost like they were dog-fighting with the airliner. They were pulling some weird maneuvers around this airliner--for instance, going very very fast and then suddenly stopping near the airliner, then moving very fast past the airliner, then stopping suddenly again and repeating the process. The airliner looked like it made some course corrections, as if it was affected by the lights. Then one of the rust-colored lights became more dim, and then dissipated, like it just dissolved into nothing. The 2 remaining lights danced around as the airliner kept its original course heading approximately south-south east. After a few more seconds of making very quick, very minute course corrections now behind the airliner, they too both dissipated into nothingness one after another. I looked around my suburban neighborhood and noticed nobody was outside and nobody else saw this amazing dance in the sky. I then lit my cigarette and watched the sky waiting for more but saw only stars and more planes, but they were south of my location and weren't displaying any weird movements. I went inside and described my experience to my wife whom I abruptly woke up.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111872). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.