Circle over Whitewater, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Last night there was a line slightly curved in the sky with what appeared to be a haze only in the line. One broke ranks and zoomed to the right in the haze then the whole thing vanished. The rest of the sky was clear and without aircraft until they disappeared. Then suddenly there were at least 6 aircraft. Tonight the sky was clear, a line of about 20 craft evenly spaced in a straight line. I tried to get a picture of it and my phone went blank. It’s never happened before. When my phone came on they had remained in formation and moved to the far right then vanished. This took all of a couple minutes. Immediately after there were aircraft in the sky. I am a flight nurse and have never seen anything remotely like this before.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178442). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-09-19 → 2023-10-06
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