Witnesses Observe 8 Round Red Lights Over Franklin Idaho

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Date: December 31 2020

Time: 10:30 p.m. (Mountain Standard Time).

Location: Franklin, Idaho.

Number of witnesses: 2

Number of objects: 8

Shape of objects: Round red lights.

Related similar Vike Factor sightings: August 2012, Idaho Falls, ID; December 31, 2020, Hudson, Mass.

Full description of event/sighting: I walked out of our house onto the west-facing porch to turn off our Christmastime lights. We live in a "dark-sky" neighborhood along Highway 91.

There was a light ground fog in the area at the time and a fairly low cloud cover that had parted for a clear view to the north. An emergency-services vehicle was not visible, but apparently parked on a street to the northwest, with it’s blue-red lights flashing, possibly in response to earlier launches of aerial fireworks. There were no fireworks activities at 10:30 p.m.

But I saw through the parted cloud cover eight very bright red lights to the north-northeast. They were flying, or drifting, with little or no noise, above the altitude of the cloud cover in pairs but in staggered lines.

I called my wife outside to also view the formation. (The lights reminded me of nighttime helicopter flights from west of Interstate 15 along the northern base of the San Gabriel/San Bernardino Mountains, in Southern California's High Desert, toward MCAS Twentynine Palms; these New Year's Eve lights' heading was oriented south toward Hill Air Force Base.)

After going back inside, I went outside again about 5 minutes later to see that the lead pair or pairs had disappeared above my overhead cloud cover and the trailing pairs were still rising or approaching closer on a steady course.

They emitted no or slight rotor/engine sounds, especially dampened by the weather conditions. I was not able to identify the aircraft or objects displaying the lights.

Thank you to the witness for the report.

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Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net

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A Cluster Of Lights Moved In Unison Franklin Tennessee (Graphics)

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Date:  October 15, 1973

Time:  8:00 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 20

Number of objects: 1

Shape of objects: Dome of many lights in the sky that outlined a top-like design.

Full Description of event/sighting: Lights from an unknown source hovered silently in the night sky over Franklin, a small rural town located approximately fourteen miles from Nashville, TN. 

The cluster of lights moved in unison vertically and horizontally at tree top level above small hills that lay beyond a field with several trees I estimated to be about forty feet tall.  And beyond the field, near the base of the hills, was a long white wooden fence next to a road where many cars stopped to view the lights. 

I saw the same lights the night before from my house, which was about four miles away from the lights. The following evening, October 15th, 1973, I decided to drive to  toward the lights. People gathered around, but no one knew the source of the lights. 

The newspaper reported strange objects were seen numerous times during the day and at night.  The objects were reported to be seen at different times and at different locations, approximately 33-miles from the previous sighting, which formed a triangle in a systematic path that formed other triangles.

When a person plotted the sightings on a map the triangle measured 33-miles from point to point. The lights and objects were sighted several weeks before they disappeared. 

People reported that the lights caused unusual behavior in  their dogs and cows. These accounts are documented in the Franklin and Nashville newspaper (see October 1973 issues). I was a nonbeliever of UFO's prior to these sightings; however, that experience has changed my attitude about UFO's. I never reported the incident at the time because I was in the Navy on recruiting duty. 

My experience of seeing the lights left me feeling like I was seeing something; and yet, not actually seeing something, as I reflect on this experience more than 30-years ago! The experience was real. The lights were real. There were reports of laser-like orange lights beaming to and from this large object in the night sky.

I saw only the top-like object that was outlined in several rows of white strobe-like lights that resembled port holes in an airplane.  There were at least four layers of lights with nothing noticeable holding them together as they slowly hovered up, down, and side to side.  I estimate the object to be the size of three football fields.

Thank you to the eyewitness for the very interesting report.

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net

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