Formation over 406 Pine St Lot 2, SD
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The reason I started taking pictures because the sky sounded like the North and South fighting in the Revolutionary War directly above us. I thought it was the calm before a Hail Storm. It's common for me to hear air traffic, since I live an hour away from an Air Base, but I've been hearing jets, helicopters, thunder without rain... at all hours of the day and night. This evening was absolutely beautiful out, no wind, sun on your back type day behind me and this Ominous cloud above the hills in front of me. I snapped this photo. You can see a small circle of light that is different from the surrounding cloud cover. If you zoom in, you can see five individual lights flying in a close pattern.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #156460). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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