Formation over CA
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The report, as filed
At night as we were leaving our house my wife noticed an array of light almost hovering in the sky above the golf course. The lights which consisted of 4 bright lights were in a triangular formation. 3 almost in line with each other the fourth was offset. The lights were pretty high up and moving very slowly from east to west. We watched and recorded them for a bit before we drove off. We returned 10 minutes later and the lights were gone.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171609). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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