Unknown over Lafayette, LA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Exactly Four crafts hovering and zagging, in different sections of the night sky with a full moon being the backdrop. It seemed three of them were waiting for the one in the most southernly direction to do something bc its light was the brightest and it was the one closest to the ground. The motion of all of the other three crafts were quick horizontal and vertical movements, in relation to where each craft was positioned in the sky but relatively stationary. The one in the northernly direction moved more erratic than the others and thats what made it known that me and my friend were looking at something unusual. None of the crafts made noise nor was a sound barrier broken when the easternly one moved an absurd distance in less than 1.5 seconds and came to an immediate stop and hovered stationary again. Then all 4 crafts, points of light, whatever they were, dashed and disappeared in a southernly direction simultaneously and instantly.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #147706). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-07-16 → 2019-08-02
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