Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Refer above: Nothing tangible, just round colored lights moving in formation. I may not rembember correctly but it seems that there was one purple one, one orange and the one on the very end was red.

Size of Object(s)

Size estimates from a 50 ft circle, to 40, 30, 20 and ten, like that.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

They traveled at ground level

Description of Area / Surroundings

Forested near a coal mining town. test edit

Full Description & Details

My father and I were coon hunting which was popular at that time and place. It was at night approximately three miles east of Dunbar, VA. We were walking along the railroad tracks and down from this mountain came several balls of different colored lights with a little red one bringing up the rear. They were all round and going from large to small with the large ones in the front leading the way. They had no source that I could acertain. It seemed that they were their own source of light. They were not three dimensional and did not travel in a straight line. They moved down the mountain, then down the river and back up the other mountain. They made no sound. Whoever came up with those lights in that movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind must have seen the same thing before. It was exactly like that. Very strange and I've pondered on that often but can come up with no explanation.

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

No, nothing conventional that I can relate to,,,,,, weirdest thing I ever saw

Witness Background

I have no formal edcucation. Just a year of college but am well read. I read all the time but usally nothing much in the way of Sci-fi. I'm more into books from Authors like Grisham.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I have always been a skeptic, at least in the sense that they are extraterrestial in orgin, owing to the distance factor and the exact speed of light. That makes it kinda difficult to think that they could have come from another solar system. The best I can come up with is that maybe it's something from another dimension but I have trouble even conceiving anything like that. All I know is that I DID see them and I cannnot explain it.

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