7/1/2003: Mentor-on-the-Lake, OH, USA

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Occurred : 7/1/2003 20:30 (Entered as : 7/1/03 20:30) Reported: 11/19/2014 10:48:09 AM 10:48 Posted: 11/21/2014 Location: Mentor-on-the-Lake, OH Shape: Triangle Duration: 2-3 seconds Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object left a trail, There was an aura or haze around the object, The object changed color
Group of seven lights in triange formation, silent & disappearing. Sitting on the back porch with the family as I looked up toward the East, North East - I noticed a tight group of 7 lights (one at the apex, with 3 on each side) a few hundred feet in the sky. Silent, no noise. I could not distinguish a body to the craft, although I also could not say for certain there was not one. It was difficult to tell, as it only lasted maybe less than 2 or 3 seconds. Maybe less so. It was traveling away from me in the same direction I was looking. As it disappeared (and not into the horizon, it just faded into nothing all of a sudden) Where I had seen the lights, for an ever shorter duration there was the translucent distortion you would see when looking at hot asphalt from a distance or the after burner of a jet, etc... Very strange. I would like to see it again. Also, the lights were white, with a hint of yellow. More of the yellow hint as they faded into the clear translucent-type effect I described. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 7/1/2003 20:30 (Entered as : 7/1/03 20:30)
Reported: 11/19/2014 10:48:09 AM 10:48
Posted: 11/21/2014
Location: Mentor-on-the-Lake, OH
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 2-3 seconds
Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object left a trail, There was an aura or haze around the object, The object changed color

Group of seven lights in triange formation, silent & disappearing.

Sitting on the back porch with the family as I looked up toward the East, North East - I noticed a tight group of 7 lights (one at the apex, with 3 on each side) a few hundred feet in the sky. Silent, no noise. I could not distinguish a body to the craft, although I also could not say for certain there was not one. It was difficult to tell, as it only lasted maybe less than 2 or 3 seconds. Maybe less so. It was traveling away from me in the same direction I was looking. As it disappeared (and not into the horizon, it just faded into nothing all of a sudden) Where I had seen the lights, for an ever shorter duration there was the translucent distortion you would see when looking at hot asphalt from a distance or the after burner of a jet, etc... Very strange. I would like to see it again. Also, the lights were white, with a hint of yellow. More of the yellow hint as they faded into the clear translucent-type effect I described.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))