As reported

Light over Columbus, OH

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

My fiancé and I were driving home one night and I looked up in the sky and all I saw what looked like was one of those spotlights from like a club or something. then I saw it again and it caught my eye that it was going back-and-forth at a weird speed. The craft would appear to be going at one pace and then it would speed up and then there were multiple crafts it seemed. We carefully eliminated any local or man made projection that it could’ve been considering the further we went on the freeway we never passed those lights !! they continued to stay right in front of us until they disappeared it’s the strangest thing that I’ve ever caught on video. Keep in mind this is 1:30 in the morning hardly anybody out it’s a quiet night I just can’t explain it I neither can anybody else that we’ve shown.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170767). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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