Triangle over Eureka Springs, AR
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The report, as filed
We were in our back yard looking up in the sky at the stars. My wife said look at that and when I looked I saw a triangle of lights almost straight overhead. It was huge in scale and was heading towards the west. It had no sound and it disappeared into the horizon in a matter of seconds.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #173459). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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