Formation over Milo, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I were driving home from dinner last night and saw orange lights in the sky. There were three lights in a triangular formation flying NNE at typical small aircraft speed. The formation did not change as the lights moved across the sky. Once the three were out of sight or turned east and lights were not visible, three more flew along the same flight path one at a time and disappeared at roughly the same point. There was no noticeable sound associated with the fly over.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #151808). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-12-17 → 2020-01-03