Formation over Loveland, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We thought we were looking at stars when we noticed that these stars were moving. Two of these four what we thought were stars were moving at the same speed horizontally from each other. Three of these lights were the same light color while what seemed to be the head of the four flying objects had a flashing Blue light and would change from blue to green. And those same two lights thatt were horizontally from each travelled from the western horizon to the eastern horizon at the same speed.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #173054). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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First time posting here. I’ve been seeing these lights in the sky at least three times in the past year but this was so strange I had to report. It was dark and I was driving from Loveland to Fort Collins when my sister and I saw a bright star. Together, we think we’ve seen this before, coming home from DIA. This time, the star was so bright, and changing in intensity that we stopped. We had to squint to catch the outline of the strange light but when we did, it was pyramid shape with what looked like a rope of light hanging from one corner. We stared for maybe an hour when out of nowhere 6 smaller, less bright, blinking red and green grafts appeared over the mountains. Two of them circled each other and the lights eventually went separate directions. I think three of them are still over the mountains. I had to take my sister (21 yrs old) because she was freaked out and was getting anxiety. When I went back to the same exact spot, pulled over on the side of the road, the bright triangle was no longer there and the blinking red and green lights were gone except for three. They’re spread out but still high above the mountains, relatively close. I left because they weren’t moving but I finally felt the need to report something on here. That was really strange. Also, what looked like a line of smoke, appeared briefly when the blinking lights showed up and then it move in a straight direction at slow speed before I lost track of it when I was counting the blinking lights.
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