Light over Los Lunas, NM
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The report, as filed
I saw a chain of lights coming from the southwestern sky, the lights were flying to the north east direction in chain line formation. Very high up. I watched 32 or more fly by. No sound. They all seemed to disappear in the same area near a particular star to the north. I saw one of the lights do a single u-turn loop before disappearing. The next light in line did several loops extremely fast, then disappeared. I continued to watch after it seemed to be over and I saw a few more lights fly in individually about 2 minutes apart. As soon as one disappeared, another would come from the southwest then disappear where the others disappeared. I called 3 news stations. 2 news stations had received reports just like my experience. 1 news station acted like I was prank calling them.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #152598). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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