Formation over Joshua tree, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We had just got home around 5:50 pm. As I got off the car I looked up and said the stars are shining bright tonight. As I continued to look I noticed a formation of lights that suddenly appeared from the east moving northwest. I said look what is that and my daughter, her friend, and my fiancé came back to see and we just stared. There must have been 20-30 of them one right after the other appearing and then disappearing. They looked as if stars where on an escalator. There was no sound of any kind.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160934). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-11-29 → 2020-12-16
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