Light over Grantham, NH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At first it was just one big red light and it wasn't moving. I thought it was a bright planet, so I took out my nightsky app and it was not showing up. So I keep looking at it, trying ti figure it out. And then four more appeared. They all lined up from left to right in a diagonal formation, and then they started moving around up and down and seemed to be forming patterns. This went on for about 15-20 mins. I fortunately found a neighbor at the very end, who at the end saw just the one bright red light and he watched it go poof...just disappeared. The other red lights all traveled to a spot in the sky, and one by one they disappeared into that location.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178012). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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