Chevron over Richmond (City of), VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was outside viewing the lunar eclipse around midnight. To the south of the moon I saw movement and there were approximately 8-10 faint white lights in a circle. There were some clouds so maybe they were behind them. They were really high in the sky and I thought from their angular shape they were birds at first. They flew in formation and each light peeled away from the ring and made a spiral in the sky, like drawing a number 9, then disappeared. It all happened within a minute or so. I kept looking to see if I could see them again, but they were gone.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #144604). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-01-18 → 2019-02-04