Triangle over Marlborough, MA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was driving to my sons doctors appt with my boyfriend. Where we live there is a lot of planes so we were watching them up in the sky. My boyfriend spotted three red dots hovering over a field in the night sky. There was no noise from these red dots and they were in a triangular pattern. It was flying quite fast and very low. Maybe about 200 ft up. He continued driving and I continued staring. We eventually drove behind the trees. We reemerge from trees and it was nowhere in sight. This was right behind the Marlborough airport but was most definitely not a plane.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #132610). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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