Formation over lutz, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was sitting outside doing my photography for my and looked towards the left facing the west coast of Florida and saw a group of what seemed to be 15-20 metallic objects in a close formation from a distance, at first I thought it was a flock of birds but they appeared for about five seconds coming from a southernly direction then disappeared. The altitude was above the tree line and I wanted to say the altitude was between 15,000 - 20,000 feet. The approach path for aircraft descending into Tampa International is 2,500 -10,000 on the approach path here.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174729). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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