Other over Gulf of Mexico (Desoto Canyon), LA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On a drillship in the Gulf of Mexico. Location is De Soto Canyon, Blocks 4 & 47, Leases OCS-G 10437 & 10439, located 77 & 72 miles from the nearest Louisiana shoreline, respectively. I witnessed two red lights spaced apart side by side. About 15 degrees up from my point of view. Looking north. Both light were fixed position. The lights then quickly disappeared. A man standing next to me seen it also. He seen the same thing, but he seen a total of four dots. The bottom lights was space wider than the told that I seen. He advised after I noticed them that the bottom one disappeared just like the top did.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #146535). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-05-27 → 2019-06-13