Formation over Stem, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
2 people, looking at the moon from their deck, witnessed triangular formation of 3 round, flashing, red lights moving left, East to Southeast in the sky. The lights slowly shifted from an isosceles triangle formation, to scalene triangle, then a straight line following each other. All lights were blinking/flashing at differing times. Attempted to photograph and record. However the formation did not show up in any of the pictures or videos. Lights moved out of witnesses' view after 1 minute. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #133549). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-04-08 → 2017-04-25