Light over Bolivar, Hermitage, and Urbana, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was then driving from Hermitage Mo to Urbana, MO, and both me and my mother-in-law saw the lights in the northern sky with approx 5 or 6 again in a line. This went on for about 45 minutes. If the bright lights were not lit up there was four sometimes five very small lights looked like a regular star out in the sky but they flashed quickly and moved around, not like an airplane would move, but one second they were flashing, scattered out, then the next, they were in a very lose V-shaped.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #126117). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-02-26 → 2016-03-14