Formation over Tumwater, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Me and my brother were outside in the front of his yard when a series of bright oval/small pill shaped UFO’s in a line formation spaced equally apart came from South heading NE in the Tumwater area of Olympia we even had time to get his wife. A few formed a strange triangle formation before continuing NE. They were in the sky within our site for about 15 - 20 minute. They were moving really fast We tried searching for who to call or report it too but don’t know how to go about that other than post it on here. Still trying to wrap my head around it
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #155360). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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