Light over Swansea, SC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
There was a long line of red lights in sky. They appeared to be in a straight line, as if hung on a wire across the sky. There were no strobes or blinking lights. I was driving, so I cannot estimate how many lights there were, but there were many! They were not doing anything erratic or spectacular. What caught our attention was simply their presence. We could not ignore their abundance. It was one of those, "Wow! Look at that moments!" They appeared from one end of the sky to the other. We have never seen anything like this in the sky before.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137657). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-06 → 2017-12-23
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