Light over Farr West, UT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I both saw 8 orange, glowing lights moving southwest to northeast. It was windy, dark, and lightly snowing. At first, we thought it was an airplane, but the lights were not blinking and there was no noise. Then we thought maybe a comet or meteorite etc… but the lights were moving at a consistent speed and in a straight path across the sky with no trailing tail etc… We also ruled out a flare. There were two glowing, orange lights that moved across the sky together then suddenly vanished like a flame going out. Then about 30 second later two new lights appeared where the original two first appeared then traveled along the exact same path and vanished at the same point. This happened two more times. The only thing west of us is the Great Salt Lake and the Utah west desert.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #144933). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-02-13 → 2019-03-02