Light over Davenport, WA
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The report, as filed
My sister had taken my puppy outside in order to use the restroom. She came back in and informed my dad and me, who at the time, were in the living room watching TV. She informed us that there was 4 lights in the sky (at the time we thought it was stars). The lights were flashing rapidly from red to blue and back to red and so on about every 3 seconds and double the size of a regular star. I had pointed out there was three light that were side by side in a straight line almost reminded me of a disk without actually seeing the shape of the craft itself. The lights in a disk shape were orange. A few minutes later we went back in the house, checking on the objects a few times in a period of twenty minutes. My dog then needed to use the restroom again a few minutes later and the objects were no longer visible. The lights were located west of Davenport at a bearing of 271° west. Unknown of the elevation of the lights.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #133539). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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