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As reported

Light over Chilmark, MA

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

Three separate light-sources, about 15 degrees above the north-northeast horizon, first appeared in a straight line. Subsequently, the middle light ascended so that the three lights made a triangle. Then the light at the right base of the triangle winked out, followed by the left base-light. Seconds later, the apex-light also disappeared, but it seemed to ascend and recede in doing so. Total length of time viewed - 3-4 minutes.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120276). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-07-07 → 2015-07-24

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June 8, 2021 · 1:00 AM · UNKNOWN

Chilmark, MA

I was outside the other night getting some air. It’s fairly quiet here on Martha’s Vineyard…lots of trees and farm land. It was a starless night. Very dark. Then I saw what looked like a star, briefly, to the northwest. Then it (or they?) did this sort of scattershot effect in a fairly contained radius. (Almost like those poppy fireworks at the end of a big explosion.) Then it was one object again, and it started moving erratically. Again, it was far away, so it looked like a star. But it almost seemed alive, going different directions.Then it went behind a tree and I couldn’t see it. All of a sudden it was in another part of the sky to the south. Again, moving erratically like a living thing, but much faster. Then it went below that tree line and I could see it moving behind the cluster of trees. (Which gave me the impression that it must have been not enormous, but not tine either. That’s it. Not very dramatic, but it wasn’t like anything I’ve seen.