2012-07-28 - Lincoln City, OR - Formation

3 orangish/reddish round “lights” flying north of us, above the beach. They were in a straight vertical line.

We are a group of three women, all age 52. We were on a “girls” week-end trip to the beach and had a campfire on the beach directly below our hotel. At approximately 12:00am I noticed 3 orangish/reddish round “lights” flying north of us, above the beach. What was remarkable was that they were in a straight vertical line, spaced precisely and equally from the other. They were moving towards us, I thought they were helicopters and thought it was strange that they were flying so perfectly in line and with no sound. They continued to come closer to us probably a mile out but hard to guess. They never lost their perfect positioning and continued to get brighter,they seemed to hover a few minutes. All three of us watched the lights and noticed more random lights to the right and lower of the 3, same size and color but flying in a random pattern. There were several of these lights. After a while, the 3 uniform lights started to get smaller until they dis! appeared. At the time, we all thought it was strange but assumed a logical explanation must exist for the lights. It was not until the next morning that we continued to talk about the lights and look up such sights on the internet, looking for an explanation, that we discovered that maybe this was a reportable incident. After reading a news article in our local paper, Tri-Cities, Washington, the following week regarding a similar sighting that we decided we should indeed report this.

A brief background of the three sighters would be; one accountant, one nuclear medical technician, one business owner, we are mothers and wives. None of us had encountered any situation like this before and all three felt there must some reasonable explanation for this other than unidentified flying object, before this, skeptics for sure.