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My wife and I were camping along the Mendocino coast, 20 miles north of Fort Bragg.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
The night sky was clear with no cloud cover. The stars and Milky Way were clear to eye. While we were star gazing, we immediately noticed 8 orange-red “large” star-shaped glowing lights directly over the southern horizon.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
They were hovering and slowly moving up, then toward each other, then moving in opposite directions with no clear flight path.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
They began dissolving into one another until there was only one larger orange light which then began moving west and then disappeared. 5 minutes larger 2 more appeared, did the same movements for about 10 minutes and then each dissolved.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
All of these objects had no particular flight path and changed direction several times before blinking out.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
We felt surprised and amazed as to what we were seeing. I have a few close friends who are pilots and am very aware of the flight paths of planes and helicopters. These lights did not move in either fashion.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
This\u00a0case was submitted to UFO Casebook, and is used with permission.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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