Light over Middleton, ID
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
girlfriend and I saw between 10-12 white illuminated objects moving from an SW to NE direction in the sky at night. They appeared to be coming from ground-level, reaching several thousand feet into the air. They were fairly slow-moving and faded-out seconds after first appearing on the horizon. The looked similar to flares, but were slower, bright white and all following the same path, forming a perfect line in the sky. They were spaced about a second apart from one another.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160977). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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