Light over Reading, MA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Every night I look up to the Big Dipper, have since childhood. Tonight I looked up but there were two extra stars to the left of the cup end the two were moving in a northern direction evenly spaced, 1 behind the other the one behind began gaining on the other then they seemed to merge to become one. At that point within seconds the light broke up into 4 individual lights darting off at high speed each in a direction of their own at a north south east and west. I have never seen anything like this. I called to my wife to witness it. she thought I was loosing it! Found this site while searching if anyone else saw this!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #145346). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-03-20 → 2019-04-06
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