Formation over McKinleyville, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looking In South sky I and 2 others witnessed 44 individual craft proceeding North at evenly spaced intervals high in night sky. No sound and moving 2x faster than most Jets witnessed in my life . Single light white in color on each craft.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #154483). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-03-22 → 2020-04-08
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February 9, 2020 · 5:30 AM · LIGHT
McKinleyville, CA
Between 05:20 and 05:35 I was preparing to enter my truck on the way to work. As I was putting on my work vest I looked up and saw the stars which is rare in Humboldt co. I then noticed 4 or 5 bright lights traveling east southeast at a high rate of speed. They were evenly spaced and appeared to very high. There was no sound that I could hear. I then noticed there were more following them. Near a star that in bright in the sky I observed these lights appearing what seemed like out of nowhere. on furthure observation I could see these lights appearing as coming out of a fog with a dim light growing rapidly brighter and coming in evenly spaced times and following one after another. This went on from 30 seconds to a minute then they quit. I have no idea how long this went on before I saw them. I was hoping my crew would show up so he could see them too but he arrived too late.
April 21, 2017 · 9:04 PM · FORMATION
McKinleyville, CA
On the night of April 21, 2017 at 9:03 PM Pacific Time, I walked outside to move my car from the driveway to the street in Humboldt County, California. As I walked outside and looked to the sky, Westward, above the Pacific Ocean, there were four spherical or circular red lights that were very bright red in the center and in a formation similar to the big dipper star constellation. The objects were moving in formation upward and to the right (if on land looking at the Pacific Ocean the objects were moving North). I immediately thought these were four ufos and I should grab my Samsung Galaxy S6 Smart Phone and take a video. At 9:04 PM Pacific Time, when raising the phone to take video, I took one accidental photograph, containing three of the four mentioned objects. The bottom three were captured. The missing ufo was about 150 degrees from furthest red dot on left in photograph. Although the three lights do not appear completely red in the photo, the four lights in the sky were clearly all red in person. Upon capturing that photograph and attempting to take one video, the objects seemed to be aware I was capturing them and decided to disperse and slightly break formation and each go upwards quickly. They continued to fly upwards at about a 90 degree angle until I could no longer see the faint red lights. They kept going and going until they faded away above the Pacific Ocean. This all happened within 1-2 minutes at most. Between 9:03-9:05 PM. The photograph was taken at 9:04 PM Pacific Time.