Light over Shady Cove, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I arrived home from work--17:30 and noticed several moving lights in the sky. There were eight lights moving west to east. I watched for a minute or so, trying to decide what I was seeing, and realized I wasn't hearing any sound like I would from an airplane. I ran to the front door and called for my husband to come and see the lights--he stood on the from porch steps and we both watched the lights move for about 5 minutes. The lights-red with a smaller white light--moving from the west--flew in a random order (seemingly). The lights all moved up and through the same spot in a cloud. We watched waiting for them to come out the other side of the cloud--but nothing. The last of the lights moved faster from the west than the other lights and disappeared through the same hole in the cloud.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131295). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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