Light over Steamboat Springs, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At 23:00 while working on the local ski area got out of the machine I was running to move a fence when I noticed a red orange light just above the tree line. It was joined by a second light higher and to the left. I watched for a few moments and noted that the lights were moving. I went back to work continueing to watch and within minutes there were six lights. Over the next hour the lights would disappear and reappear make shapes ranging from triangles to crosses to L shapes. At first I thought someone was using a bunch of lasers but looking at where they were in the daylight that wasn't poosible. My other thought was someone was flying drones but even that was ruled out.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #125037). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-12-28 → 2016-01-14
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