Appearance / Description of Object(s)

They resembled the look of small stars. Whitish/blue illumination. There were no contrails or noise involved.

Size of Object(s)

The group spanned a distance that would take both hands spread with thumbs touching. They were high in altitude so if I had stretched my arms out and blocked the vision I would have had to spread my hands out and had the tips of my thumbs touching.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Collinsville is a town of appx. 24,000 and we are located east of St. Louis, Missouri. Scott Air Force Bace is located about 15 miles from here. I often see/hear planes taking off or landing at Scott and that was not what these objects were doing. They were already at their 'crusing' altitude.

Full Description & Details

I had just gotten out of my car. The night was warm for November (60 degrees) so I paused in the yard to look up at the stars. The movement of the objects caught my eye when they were still at my far right (east). I watched them go across the sky until they faded out as they went west. As they moved across the sky they reminded me of a line of geese and they flucuated in formation as geese do when they are trying to figure out who is going to lead the flock. The sky was clear enough to see stars, even in town, but there were a few light/thin low clouds. Not many though at the time. The best way to give an idea of how these looked would be to compare them to know stars. If you look at Orion and focus on the stars that make his belt, the objects appeared slightly larger than those three stars. They moved swiftly from east to west in a straight flight pattern.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

NO

Witness Background

I am a college educated Medical Laboratory Technician. I have worked mainly in hospitals and for private labs.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I don't rule out the possibility of UFOs. I have seen some of the typical programs on Discovery.

Other Comments

My oldest son and I had a similar experience in 1996. That time it was only one object but the situation was otherwise similar. We were out on our deck at that time.

In the early 80's I saw a very low flying craft while driving late at night. It was very low and very large. It came up from behind the car and as it passed over it totally blocked out my view of the sky. It made no noise and was 'triangular' in shape but the 'back' from 'wing tip to wing tip' was concaved somewhat. It was dense black, even at night but the bottom had a series of Illuminations. It made me think of a computer board with the electronic parts giving off a blue hue of light. It traveled with me for about four miles at best guess. I was not alone but my husband was sleeping. I kept thinking to myself that he should wake up and look at it but I didn't try to wake him for some reason. I was leaning forward looking at it and trying to drive at the same time, doing a good job of it too, then suddenly it just wasn't there any longer. I didn't watch it leave, it was as if it just suddenly disappeared. A now you see it, now you don't moment.

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