Circle over Coachella Valley, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On my drive down to my Palm Desert house from the San Fernando Valley, on the evening of Oct. 23rd, over the Coachella Valley area around 9:30 P.M. or so there were 3 HUGE blotches of fuzzy lights way up high in the sky, off in the distance over a mountain range, in the middle of nowhere. Each was very large....about the size of a football field if they were rounded out. They were all moving around each other in a frantic pattern....sometimes moving slowly, as if dancing around one another. Other times one would jet sharply in another direction, moving in a manner I have never seen any light or airplane moving. It was the oddest thing I have ever seen! And they stayed there, in that same area, for quite a while - at least 5-10 minutes. Could have been longer, but I finally got too far away to see them. The oddest thing about them was the kind of indescribable movement these objects were doing. Nothing I have ever seen could go from moving so slowly and smoothly to such an immediate burst of sharp, angular direction change. This was definitely bizarre and like nothing that I have ever seen.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #130816). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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