Other over Columbus, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My family and I were coming back from a trip to Iowa. A half hour out from Columbus on I70 I spotted two orange lights just sitting there. So I thought maybe a higher pole or something, but it was really high. I tried to figure out what it was for 10-15 minutes before my dad said “hey guys, y’all see those orange lights over there, whats that?” I said maybe a pole, idk I’ve been trying to figure out what it is for about 10 minutes now. He said it was about 1000 to a couple thousand feet in the air and that it couldn’t be a pole. So we watched it for a couple minutes.... which my daughter and nephew at this time saw it..... and then it started moving. The other orange light we thought was moving too but it could have been Mars because later I looked it up. Anyway, it started moving and I grabbed my phone to try and record and it was not moving in a straight line. It was moving all over to where i couldn't really record good.... Keep in mind we were also drivi! ng on a highway, but with my naked eye i could see the it was kinda zig zagging. So then it went over the highway over our van and i saw (with my naked eye) 6-9 orange rectangular lights close together forming a triangle on the bottom of the craft. I also remember seeing a red light towards the end. I have the video and also slowed the video down. And i have also screenshot the still parts i thought you could really see what i saw.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #157089). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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