Light over Mountain home, ID
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Saw three stars resembling Orion’s Belt to the south west. Confused, I kept my eye on it and gazed in awe as several more stars periodically appeared, all forming a straight line. At its peak, it looked like about 10 stars angling from left to right, all in a straight line. I was driving on 84 going west and was waiting for an exit to stop and take a picture, but one by one the “stars” faded away as I drove.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160994). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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