NUFORC Sighting 146324

Occurred: 2019-05-25 01:08 Local
Reported: 2019-05-25 04:19 Pacific
Duration: >2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Payneville, KY, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

At least 18-24 square shaped bright reddish orange lights moving across sky in a single row for at least 2 full mins

At approximately 1:08am, I happen to look up into the northern part of the sky & seen what appeared to be, as I went to slowly focus my eyes, a row of what I counted to be (at first, that is) 18 bright reddish orange lights that all appeared to be as the same size from 1 end to the other. Every light also appeared clear enough to be able to see, with the naked eye I might add, that they were in the shape or form of almost a perfect square. As I looked & became to stare at this row of lights for about 30 seconds, I finally spoke loudly to my friend asking (excuse me for the profanity...) “Hey, what the **** is that?!” Then I again excitedly asked “Hey (*his name*), what the **** is that?!” He, who was sitting up on the porch, which btw faced east, had then stepped off & walked out to where i was. This was just to the edge of his driveway to which he now also faced north & w/out any hesitation whatsoever, had seen exactly what I was seeing as well. The lights ! were in a straight line & were moving northeast. Now there was also a plane that was flying in the same general area/part of the sky. At least, so it seemed anyway to which I’m sure the way the angle/direction was to where we were looking from. The plane seemed to be much closer to where we were though considering the speed it seemed to travel & area of sky it seemed to cover compared to how these were moving themselves. As the plane seemed to further itself away in the sky, we kept our eyes on these lights. So as we kept viewing them, my friend raced inside to get a night vision camera that he has while I stood still & never took my eyes off of the lights. They remained in a tight row & seemed to now be as many as a possible 30 or more. I only was able to surely definitely count a now total of 24 as something began to take place. As my friend raced outside with his night vision camera, I myself was trying to use my iPhone camera but both were unable to get these lights to ! appear on either one of our camera screens. I really don’t kno! w how to explain why that was occurring. I asked how many lights he was seeing & he said he was counting somewhere around a possible 30 himself. I know there were more than 24 at one time but can only say for sure that I had took the time at one point to count out 24 of them. Now as all this was happening, we were really asking one another of how sure each of us were in seeing what we were seeing & all of this was actually happening to which we both kept assuring ourselves that this was something that was actually taking place in the way that we were experiencing it to which is the same exact way that I’m describing it here. I apologize greatly for the rambling but I hope you can understand how excited & overwhelmed I am still up to this very point as I try to so greatly detail any/every little thing that both I & my friend can recall for you. Now, after a minute & a half or so had gone by, over the next I’d say 15-20 seconds (in what seemed to be a best estimate of) perhaps then ab! out 12-15 of the lights start to, I guess, dissipate then. Now I don’t mean in anyway close to how, let’s say how a tail of a shooting star/meteorite tends to look like. When I say dissipate, I mean to just slowly fade out into a continuous dim. As if you were to sit & watch someone slowly turn a rotary dial type light switch from fully on to dimly to just dark & without any flickering whatsoever. The first 6 lights in the giant row of squared shaped reddish orange lights remained just as bright as they did throughout the entire 2 mins of this entire event from 1:08 AM to 1:10 AM. They seemed to just totally remain 1 right alongside the other staying illuminated just as bright as they were when I first saw them at 1:08 AM. So now, it is (what I counted to be over n over again) just 6 lights left to which all remained lit & together, no one or the other within the tightly grouped side by side 6 of them dissipating/disappearing one before the next. Then at approximately 1:10 ! AM, all 6 just disappeared in an instant but in a strange sort! of ‘ins tant’. The 6 of them seemed to disappear in a ... i don’t know I guess almost as if to say the dark sky sort of ‘vacuumed’ them up and just... gone... like that, period. Then just... nothing. I don’t know how else to explain it but to say it was as if you’re looking at the front of a vacuum at eye level & you were to watch a piece of something such as dirt or dust for example & it literally just gets sucked up into the vacuum. Well, that is the very best & most accurate way to describe how differently & unique these last 6 lights seem to then vanish at the end of this most bizarre incident. Now there are some things I want to include & make very clear of as well. First off, neither 1 of us ever seen any sort of ‘ship, craft and/or structure’ of ANY kind. I say this & find it most important due to the comments I want to include in further describing the ‘square shape’ that I clearly saw in looking at these lights. A really good way to describe what we were looking at would be! , for example, take the fuselage of a passenger airplane. How all the windows are lined up next to each other & then say, have each one wide open with its blind pulled all the way up. Now as for the color/light & glow it seemed to create... I guess I’d say to imagine the inside cabin to be on fire, maybe? I suppose that’d be a way to describe the such glow and illuminated reddish orange shade that was being put off in each single segment of light. Now I was able to record the last few seconds of all this on my phone. Well, let me put it another way. I have the last 4 - 5 secs of us talking to one another in excitement as I’m holding my phone towards whatever this is in the sky yet as I mentioned before, nothing seems to come up on the screen. I just cant help but to feel frustrated bcos of not just myself but to have another person that I know so very well and can trust in knowing that he’s seeing the same exact thing I am. Yet, neither camera we’re holding and filming with! are able to pick it up. Even with the lights being as bright ! as they were while dissipating into all but the last 6. It just doesn’t make sense. I know this all comes off as sounding a bit crazy. I know how I’ve been my whole life in hearing such stories from different ones in describing such bizarre & crazy so-called UFO’s. I’ve got to admit though that I’m afraid that I’m about to feel the same in what most of these people have went thru as well in experiencing such a crazy incident(s) in their life. I’ll just say that “Hey, I know that both my friend and I are a couple of smart middle aged guys who are intelligent in each of our own field/trades. We both stood there for a couple of hours after the incident was over & tried & tried to explain what it was and/or could be but even after speaking to just a very select few of certain ones close to each of us, we really cannot come up with a logical answer. I know I can speak for the both of us though in saying that we would give anything to know what it was that we actually saw last night on Ma! y 25th at btwn 1:08AM and 1:10AM in the N to NE sky of Payneville, KY. Please if any1 else saw this described incident, I ask that you share as well in what you may have seen and perhaps what your opinion may be.




NUFORC Note:

Space Link satellites. PD


Posted 2019-06-07

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