Light over Marshall, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
7 people in two different cars, arriving at slightly different times to a home, saw 6-7 yellow lights in a line, perfectly spaced in the sky, static and unmoving. They remained in the sky for approximately 30 seconds or so and then disappeared without a trace. We were unable to capture any images of the object/lights. Immediately afterward, we began to see what appeared to be jets coming from the east, one after the other, heading in the direction of whatever we saw. We counted 15 jets total and we are not in a flight path for planes. We also checked to see if it was possible that the object was the starlink satellite but it was located elsewhere at the time.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177445). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-08-08 → 2023-08-25
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