Light over Altadena, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Hiking way up in the mountains of Altadena, around 8:30pm witnessed a total of 51 unidentified flying objects (single distant unblinking lights) traveling in a somewhat straight trajectory appearing near Orion's Belt traveling by Venus in a NW trajectory. They all were maintaining the same speed and direction one appearing after the next. My friend and I both watched this transpire over about an hour. When looking up above us,we also noted additional distant lights but traveling in several different directions.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #155242). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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