Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Six redish-orange orbs that pulsated or flickered like lanterns. They were round in shape and arranged in two distinct triangles, one following the other.

Size of Object(s)

Relative size -- 1/2 inch orbs. Actual size -- undetermined

Description of Area / Surroundings

The city is an urban area, however the orbs were over a fairly rural outskirt of town. There is an airport in that direction, and approximately twenty miles from the airport is a nuclear power plant.

Full Description & Details

At approximately 6 a.m. central time on a February morning, in Rockford, IL, U.S.A., I witnessed six redish-orange orbs arranged in two triangles rising into the the south sky above a tree line. The orbs were glowing or pulsating like lanterns moving East to West in a zig-zag patern while rising in the sky. One triangluar arangement was seemingly following another, gaining in altitude for approximately three minutes. I went inside to get a camera, and when I came back out, they were gone.

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

This may be able to be explained as some type of man made object, but was certainly nothing I have ever seen before.

Witness Background

I am a high school English teacher with a master's degree in literature.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I read very little before, and am fairly indifferent on the subject.

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