NUFORC Sighting 65355

Occurred: 2008-08-22 23:00 Local
Reported: 2008-08-23 08:59 Pacific
Duration: 1 hour
No of observers: 4

Location: Provo, UT, USA

Shape: Chevron
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

On 8/22/08 in Provo Utah we saw many chevron shaped groupings of rapidly moving clusters of bright crafts.

My 25 year old daughter and her 24 year old friend were at the park near Center and Geneva road in Provo, the one with the fort. As they were sitting there they saw a V shaped cluster of approximately 50 or more very bright lights move some what low across the sky at a very rapid speed. It moved like a school of fish, curving in unison, but then splitting apart at times. It was coming from the north west and moving south east. Various other configurations of these groupings passed every few minutes. At times the lights would flare so brightly it was startling! She called me on the phone and told me to look outside to see if I could see anything, but we have a street lamp in front of our home and we couldn't. They came and picked us up and we went back to the park. I expected to see that it was a search light or something but then one large grouping flew overhead and it was undeniably something unlike anything I had ever seen or could explain. It was like a boomerang shape cluster of up to 50 objects all flying in formation very close together and they just kept coming every few minutes. They were not single file like airplanes would fly, but grouped densely together. We had brought our binoculars and my 17 year old son was able to track one very brightly lit group. He saw individual crafts all clustered together, circular with dark violet lights circling around the outer edge. They were not all identical in shape and at one point they suddenly shot straight up in a deep purple blast. Most of the groupings were in a chevron pattern, but some were just small clusters. When the lights would flare it was stunning! Then they would fade to a dimness that made them unnoticeable unless you were looking at them already. They moved across the sky at an inhuman speed. We also watched multiple airplanes flying overhead and it made the speed of these objects even more stunning.

I am a retired nurse and current business owner in partnership with my daughter. Her friend is a world traveler and has seen other sightings in his life. My 17 year old son is a skeptic, as I am and we both came along expecting to see something that was easily explainable. I don't believe in UFO's never have. I don't believe in anything I can't see and I even struggle with religion although I was raised in the Mormon faith and do still attend. I don't know what to do with this experience. I know I witnessed a massive sighting of UFO's and I am scared!

Posted 2008-10-31

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