Light over Stockton Lake, MO

The report, as filed

On May 13th, 2022 at approximately 9:12 pm central standard time on Stockton Lake, my father, my daughter, and I were fishing. While looking at the sky (eastern view) and noticing how bright the moon was I spotted a large white light traveling northbound. I pointed it out to my father and stated how I thought planes were supposed to fly with flashing red and white lights. After watching the light travel at a seemingly normal speed, it passed under the moon and traveled about 30 more seconds before becoming stationary. Shortly after the object stopped moving a smaller white light appeared traveling northbound moving at a high rate of speed. The smaller light then passed the larger light, traveld a short distance, then changed its direction of travel and began heading back to the larger light. Before the smaller light made it back to the larger light, the larger light began traveling in a northwest direction. The smaller light then began following the larger light. After watching both lights travel for around two minutes, both were out of sight/disappeared. A few minutes later, we began seeing more smaller lights, around 5-6 traveling northbound. These lights were not together in a group but were traveling alone. One would appear, we would watch it then it would fade away before another one was spotted in a different location in the sky. At one point, we did see what I am assuming was a plane (it had red and white flashing lights) traveling southbound that was being followed by a small white light was that was moving at a high rate of speed. All lights were round and white in color. There were no "tails" following them and all appeared to be flying at a height that you would see a commercial jet liner flying. These were spotted by myself (a head start teacher), my father (a firefighter/employee of the U.S. Forest Service), and my four year old daughter. She even began pointing some of them out. There were no drugs or alcohol that had been consumed prior or during this incident.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #168394). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.