SIGHTING: JONESBOROUGH, TENNESSEE (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"The weather was cold (38f, no wind) and the skies were very clear. the moon was in the eastern sky hanging low in the quarter moon. i was outside going to one of my sheds, walking south, when i noticed something to my west. i turned and saw three sets of lights in a triangle. each set of lights appeared to be at least a few miles apart on the horizon. at first all three sets of lights were spinning in place, flashing red-green-blue. then white lights appeared both on top and bottom of the other lights on all three sets. (i am guessing the vessels would have been disk-shaped.) i stood there for about four minutes and then the spinning lights stopped. i stood quietly and observed. i didn't feel scared but the hair on the back of my neck stood up a little. i was armed at the time but did not feel the need to draw. i wasn't sure what to think of the lights, however, i knew that they were: too low and too large to be satellites; not anything of a terrestrial nature that i knew of that could remain stationary that long; and the lights were incredibly bright, probably in the hundreds of millions of candlepower. as i watched, the white lights grew brighter and brighter but still remained perfectly stationary and didn't move from their formation. i felt calm but as if i was being watched. i kept my hands in my pockets except to zip up my coat. the whole time i felt curious and wanted to see the lights spin again but they just sat there though i thought i saw the far left (northwest) light move up and down a little. after about twenty more minutes, i got cold so i decided to go in. i went in the house, turned off the lights, and waited about ten minutes. i then peeked out of a west-facing window and all three units were spinning again, flashing the lights in the same pattern. i realize now that i may have been being observed while i was observing the lights. i didn't feel threatened since they didn't move at all but i can't help but feel like they may have been taking a survey of my area. there are no airports within a 30 mile radius of my home. there are no military installations within several hundred miles. i live in a sparsely populated area in a glacial valley with few trees (in fact, there is a 10,000 acre farm right behind my home so there are no trees at all on that side of my home). i unfortunately couldn't get anything coherent out of my cell phone's camera that would be of use for a reference. i have never reported a ufo before but this was too odd of an occurrence to think this was anything but a possible ufo."