As reported

Disk over Death Valley, CA

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The report, as filed

While training at a military site, myself and some other trainers/soldiers saw what appeared to be lights in the distance. after properly putting on NVGs (night vision goggles) and accurately relocating the object in the sky myself and my partner saw the UFO in the sky go around the mountain chains in and out of mountain itself. after my partner decided that it might be an illusion from spending too much time in the sun and not sleeping properly he took off and decided to sleep. I stayed up and watched this object in the distance and saw its maneuvers in the sky, some soldiers that might have still be up saw how this object go closer to us in the sky and maybe decided to check us out as we did it. the dark night sky was great because the milky way was visible with the naked eye so objects such as these UFOs where a bit harder to spot due to all the stars in the sky. As soon as I saw it getting close I turned my IR (infraRed) option on and it was not able to! detect anything on the craft soon after the craft split into two and circled the valley we slept in. soon after the lights merged together and took off with a light blue streak that came from it taking off.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #149336). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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