Light over Salinas, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Today it rained a little, but the sky had cleared quite a bit. I was standing in my yard with my dog, looking toward the sky, looking at a planet and first stars of the night. At about 6 pm I saw the first 3 stars traveling evenly spaced in a row. There was a small gap in spacing, then one after another light after light traveled in a row. I watched 31 lights evenly spaced traveling in a row from SW to NE. One light traveled alongside one of the lights in the row, then went off into a different direction.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #151871). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-12-19 → 2020-01-05
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