Oval over Galveston, TX
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Saturday night looking to the West from beach house located at Terramar Beach I with two friends witnessed 3 large slow moving hot pink/red orbs in a following formation over West Bay. The orbs had an intense color of hot pink/red and appeared a little smaller than a BB held at arms length. Orbs were three fingers above the horizon, quite low when first seen with the middle orb higher than the front and following orb. Orbs moved from west to east along the bay then turned over the bay toward the mainland. Leading orb did not appear after it's view was blocked by a house. Higher orbs continued across West Bay and faded out. 5 min in view. 10 minutes a second formation appeared just like the first but now 4 orbs were in a right to left very low trailing formation. The lower orbs were blocked by a house others turned and faded out. Viewed thru 10x23 mm binoculars, orbs were ALL LIGHT and SOLID in tight focus. 3 photo's taken.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #118641). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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