Changing over Palm Spring, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Too big to be birds. 1 squadron high was changing shapes from v to flat lines to curves (about 8 white balls forming the shapes) next to this was a 4 balls line compact (lower in the sky) and another 3 ball line lower than the 2 other formations They moved pretty slowly even slower than airplanes. The shapes were forming and shifting slowly as well (as migrating birds does) the 2 "following lines" integrates the major shape, fade away to a V shape that slowly disateared
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129756). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-09-03 → 2016-09-20
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