Unknown over Hume, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Three of them in triangle formation and the other five came out one at a time and one went straight up and others flew north. They came up over the tree line down the road and the three flew sideways and then went north and the other four flew sideways and went up and down fast then headed north. They came out a couple minutes apart except the first three all together. My dog also barked every time I saw them. The lights were a reddish orange color. No noise and no blinking lights.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111896). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-07-23 → 2014-08-09