Light over Cumming, GA

The report, as filed

At approximately 10:45 PM on Saturday, August 23rd, I was in my driveway, when a very bright light appeared to be shining over me and my pet. I thought perhaps someone was shining a flashlight from their second story bedroom. As I looked around I could not find the light source and I determined that it could only be coming from above me. When I looked directly over heard, I saw 3 very bright white lights in a row that were stationary in the sky. They appeared to be at the altitude of a small plane. There was no sound and as I watched them in the sky, the 2 outer lights quickly merged with the one in the center creating a burst of light and then disappeared. I stood there, thinking that I had witnessed a mid air collision, and that surely debris would begin falling from the sky. However, there was no debris. Approximately 5 minutes later, in the far distance just over the tree line I saw a bright flash of light, like that of a camera flash. That happened twice about 2 minutes apart. I expected to hear something of a sighting on the news, but there was none. I hesitated to file this report but my family thought it was important. This is one of the strangest things I have ever witnessed.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113332). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.