As reported

Sphere over Bethel, OH

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The report, as filed

I was driving to a school event on Thursday 1/25/2018, when I noticed three orange lights in the sky. They would move along, and then stop. When theu stopped the first time, one of the lights just went out, when it re-appeared it was closer to one of the other lights. Then a fourth light appeared, as if coming out of one of the other lights. They move up and back in the sky then just disappeared. These lights were orange in color and sphere shaped. I sat there in the parking lot I had pulled into, waiting to see if they would reappear, and they did not.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #138612). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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