Circle over Essex Center, VT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
After about 10 minutes of star gazing on our deck my husband noticed three large stars off the horizon to the southeast. They were in a linear position. I ran in to get my camera, but the battery was dead. I found my cell phone and ran back outside. Before I could get the image to appear on my phone (objects always appear far away on my phone) a fourth light appeared above the other three. Then a fifth light, horizontally left to the others appeared. By the time I took the picture, only three lights were present again. For about five minutes, they would randomly appear and disappear. They did not appear to be moving, but my pictures show otherwise. I will be sending them via email to you. They were very large, but look small in the pics. I had my phone magnified at its highest setting to capture them.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #121914). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-09-08 → 2015-09-25