Unspecified over Sonoita, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
From the west a line of highly elevated lights appeared one by one. They flew East all seemingly from the same starting point. They would glow slowly into view, become bright as the passed of the lights of Tucson, Then to fade as they got farther away. Looking quickly from one end of the single file, equally spaced lane, to The other end, they seemed to be turning slightly north East. As if to loop around Tucson. We witnesses easily more than twenty. Sometimes breaking sequence, and sometimes multiple single file lines.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #155204). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-04-12 → 2020-04-29
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