Circle over Coal Creek, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My friend and I saw a large, strange yellow glow in the night sky. It came on slowly, and went off slowly. It was not coming on in any certain interval of time. Wondering what this was, we drove towards it. We then noticed that there was one off to the right, and one off to the left. The one on the left had THREE yellow lights that would turn on one at a time, one right after the next, going from left to right. Then it would move its position in the sky and do it again. We drove as far as we could, to a dead end, and turned off the headlights to try to see it more clearly. We watched it for at least 15 minutes. Neither one of us could explain what we were seeing. Finally, they stopped. They were gone.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #138690). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-01-10 → 2018-01-27
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