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Light over Trenton, KY

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

The report, as filed

I saw three red lights close together in the northeast sky. My first thought as I watched it come closer was that it was a helicopter. But the lights moved in ways I have never seen a helicopter move. It moved awkward as planes moved through the sky. The lights were very bright red and solid in a triangular arrangement, they moved in unison in a zigzag pattern. Then the red lights blinked on and off. The lights then moved quickly vertical. Several times the red lights changed to one solid purple light. Then the red lights went out and moved straight down in a purple streak. The red lights then moved up and went down behind a tree line out of my view by the train tracks. There were several planes in the sky when this occurred. I was unable to tell if the three red lights made a sound because a train was going through town at the time. The next morning, I was telling my father in law what I had seen and he said he had been woke up by a noise and when he look out the window towards the train tracks he saw a bright red light.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #125535). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-01-26 → 2016-02-12

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June 8, 2022 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT

Trenton, KY

My toddler woke up about 0130. I went into his bedroom on the front side of the house. I laid down with him and started to drift off. I thought my GARMIN watch had shifted on my wrist because I saw a strobe effect in the darkness. I realized I wasn’t wearing it. I looked up, through his door, through my bedroom door, and out the window showing the back of the house into the cow pasture. There were blue lights. They were in a squatty “x” formation, wider than tall. They stretched about 50’ across, and were in the pasture about 100 yards away. It appeared to be on a hover above the pasture. I squinted because it was so unreal- there is nothing back there but fields; the farmer’s structures are a good 50’ away from the siting. As I squinted, the lights became brighter and larger, the deep teal blue color became almost whitish, spanning 75-100’ across, then vanished in an instant, appearing to head north into Kentucky, but left no tracks, trails, smoke, or any indication of directional movement. There was no sound during any of this. I laid there completely awake, asking myself for about 30 minutes if I had been dreaming, but knowing I hadn’t been asleep. I was completely awake. The picture I am enclosing is the area where the lights were in a hover before it vanished. I circled where it possibly was, which had an odd dampening of the grasses in a triangle shape now.