Oval over Van Nuys, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At 15:32 on April 21 (today) I was looking straight up into the sky and saw a couple of recent chemtrails stretching across the sky, a common experience. Then 5 shiny blue-green objects appeared in the sky, in close formation. I thought at first they were balloons, moving in a NW direction. Though they were third-dimensional, they were not perfectly spherical. They were quite high up and I couldn’t see the detail. I thought they might be drones, but not skinny at all. Then it appeared that two of them emitted short white cloud-like “chemtrails,” one each. I watched these for a short time, floating in the wind. They started to spread out as chemtrails do. UFO’s disappear. I looked away for no more than a second and when I looked back, the formation of 5 had disappeared completely. They were nowhere in the sky. But the “chemtrails were still there, and started to change shape (as chemtrails never do -- they just spread out.) From the center of each a bulge formed. One of the bulges drifted down, still connected, so the effect was that of a right angle. The other bulge did not drift, but was more rounded than straight. These small cloud-like formations lasted for a while before I went inside. They were two high up to get a good picture.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #126954). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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