Light over Rutland, VT
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The report, as filed
May 17 2021 It was around 12:05AM when I saw a string of small,moving lights in the sky. It seemed as if they were following each other at a slow,steady speed,with no sound. They moved straight at first,and then began to rather act like a snake or centipede. The lights stayed together about 3 minutes and faded out of my view. We could not get a good photo of the object on the cell phone. This has happened once before around the same time of year. The last time I saw them was in July, there were around five bright lights, and more defined. I would like to know what these are, they seem strange to me.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #163230). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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