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As reported

Formation over Playa Vista, CA

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

I saw a long string of lights which were in a perfectly straight line looked like they were connected in some way. They were above the cloud level and I heard no engine noise so they must have been relatively high. This would have meant that the string was very long. They were moving south across playa vista at a speed typical of an airplane.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #150547). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-11-08 → 2019-11-25

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