Light over Elberta, AL
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The report, as filed
We were heading in from shrimping and we notice these lights out of place and not blinking like a plane and just staying in one place so we stopped and started observing them they seemed to get closer so we started moving towards them but they in turn started getting further away so we stopped and killed the motor and cut off all the lights then the lights started back towards us slowly and my passenger got scared and told me turn turn lights back on and when I did the lights stopped and began getting farther away. We started towards boat launch and light were gone when we arrived there were no lights then as I was loading boat on trailer they appeared thru the trees. We hurried loaded and headed to the house and we stopped and started talking about it and checked the skies and started unloading then I heard her gasp for air and I looked up and there the lights were at my house they said ayes for a min they slowly backed outs site. She attempted to look thru binoculars but all she could describe was a fireball. I’ve lived with 5 mile radius for 20 years and never seen these lights and I use lights as landmarks to travel the water. I’m not sure what they were but they didn’t belong.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #167696). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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