Circle over Silver Bay, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While camping I saw four strange orange lights before going in our camper. I stopped to get a better view and noticed another set of four orange lights to the left. All of them are in line horizontal to the ground. As far as I could tell they were over Lake Superior. About 45 degrees from where I was standing. I was going to dismiss as jet flares however, the far left light of the four I was watching moved extremely fast to the left. Then shot back into position. As soon as I called for my wife they moved into a square like formation and disappeared. While explaining to her what I saw, three lights in a triangle position appeared as disappeared. No sounds.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #122872). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-10-12 → 2015-10-29