Light over Salton City, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We witnesses bright large amber yellow lights over the Salton city area at about 10 o’clock at night we stopped the car to get out we were very close probably within a mile or two appeared to coming towards us first and got larger I’m a private pilot and I did not hear an engine a jet no rotor wash they appear to be hovering but then in a very quick manner of the 13 to 10 lights four of them burned out instantly or just disappeared vanished and then there was a linear chain that went on a Wright degree angle all in a line at about a 45° angle and then it quickly turned into two triangles one on top of the other point-to-point one inverted one normal but then it went to a formation that reminded me of a the Air Force flying over the channel in World War II kind of a staggered on top of each other wingman formation and then two of them disappeared or the lights just went out they got really small like they were heading eastbound it appeared and just disappeared and then one by one they just disappeared it look like they got smaller and they vanished was very very surreal and bizarre
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #167325). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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