Light over Woodstock, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While camping on top of overlook mountain, (night was mostly clear with some scarce, thin clouds) my girlfriend and I both witnessed a precession of around 30-50 lights, about the size and brightness of a star, moving single file in a straight line across the sky. An absolute PIN straight line. The lights were moving independently of one another (didn’t seem to be fixed to something) and were in two groupings (lines) of about 20-25 each. No noise accompanied them, they all moved together faster than an aircraft but not quite as fast as a meteor. Seemed to all be going the exact same speed. Our eyes followed them until they disappeared behind scarce cloud cover at the opposite horizon. Not sure on direction.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #157107). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-06-15 → 2020-07-02
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