Formation over St. Pete Beach, FL
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The report, as filed
I was sitting at the outside lounge of the resort me and my husband were staying in . I was looking at the sky full of stars, when at the split second straight above my head in the sky 5 very bright lights starting moving together, they formed like boomerang shape and started soaring across the sky with pretty high speed. The whole event was lasting maybe 1.5-2 seconds.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160088). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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