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© Google MapsVermont Route 91 at Exit 14 near Thetford State Forest.
A Vermont witness claims many people saw the same event as a line of lights appeared and then disappeared along Route 91 at Route 113 near Exit 14, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

The witness and two teenaged children were driving north along Route 91 between Exit 13 (Norwich, VT) and Exit 14, when they first saw a "low line of lights" behind nearby trees on November 22, 2009. When the lights just disappeared, the witness thought this was unusual and continued to watch.

The witness says three to four cars pulled over at a second sighting spot, where the line of lights was again spotted low in the sky.

"It was 4 white lights in a line; perfect, equi-distanace from each other, traveling slowly, and close to us," the witness writes.

The witness also reports seeing other lights "shooting out" of the original lights to join the same pattern. Similar testimony has been reported this year from other witnesses of odd lights in the sky, where smaller lights seem to move out of the larger lights. In many cases, the smaller lights seem to travel between the larger light and the ground level. And in some cases, witnesses report low flying helicopters in the area afterwards that appear to be searching the immediate ground area.

In Illinois on December 5, 2009, a couple watched "seven or eight white starlike lights" moving across the sky at a "high rate of speed" in MUFON Case # 20892. They report that "all of the lights traveled at the exact same speed and in the exact same direction across the sky" with no sound. And in Vermont on December 4, 2009, a witness reports he and his wife watched lights making maneuvers that could not be accomplished by conventional aircraft in MUFON Case # 20880.

If you believe you were a witness to this currently reported event, please report your sighting at mufon.com to help with the research on this case. Your name will be kept confidential.

Following is the unedited and uninvestigated report from MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If Vermont MUFON State Director Steve Firmani investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update.

Vermont, November 22, 2009 - first, low line of lights behind trees. Disappears. Totally gone. Obviously, not "normal". Then, line of lights appears again.... MUFON Case # 20894.

11-22-09 at 6-7pm in Vermont: I-91 runs (roughly) North and South along the Connecticut river (N->S) between Vermont and New Hampshire.. Rt.113, runs west over I-91 at exit 14, about 1/2 between the top and bottom of Vermont.

Perfectly clear night. Lots of stars. Great, unseasonably warm weather -- not even a light jacket!

First, driving N on 91 between exits 13 and 14: behind the trees; a low line of lights. I think: "towers" - no, not towers. "plane" - no, too low and not moving fast enough. Huh. We are discussing the new TV show "V". I am listening to the kids, and watching these lights, trying to figure out what is causing them.... Wonder what that is... then ---

It Disappears. Totally gone. I say out loud to my kids:
"that's just not right!!" Obviously, light "disappearing is not "normal". My two children, young teens, both saw the lights and agreed; Just Not normal for them to disappear like that..... .

Drove along, thinking about this.... and the road turns a bit, and there they are - again....a perfect line of lights -- just appears again.... this time in FULL view over the highway. 3 to 4 Cars had pulled over to watch.

It was 4 white lights in a line; perfect, equi-distance from each other, traveling slowly, and close to us / although, I wasn't worried about anything "bad" happening.

The last light (right side -goes off -- gone. The first, farthest left light, shoots out a light to the left; which stops, equi-distance from the other ones; keeping the perfect formation.

Then, another farthest right light disappears. Just gone. The farthest left light shoots another light out to the left; creating the same line of a perfect 4 lights - all equi-distant from each other; all moving slowly to the left (west)... Keeps doing like this.. while we are trying to figure out what's doing this???

Then, gone. Just gone. We pulled behind another family to compare notes. They didn't see it "take off" either. "just gone!" Bizz-aarrrr!!!

Very fascinating. Wish we could see it again. Still wondering.

LOTS of people saw this...