Formation over santa fe, NM
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was walking home and through the sky I noticed a diagonal stream of twenty or more slow moving orange-ish lights blinking quickly in a sequence of farthest down to highest up as they descended west and eventually over the horizon. Occasionally they would seem to blur together and flash brighter. I don't know how long they were there before I saw them. Another man from my neighborhood came out into the street to get a closer look.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #161040). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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