Yellow/Orange lights move from east to west above treetops, 3 lights in triangle formation
9-17-11, 9pm – we were sitting outside and noticed high in the sky and a pretty good distance away – three glowing solid yellow/orange moving lights in the shape of a triangle that moved from east to west in a horizontal path. The triangle retained its shape the entire time we observed it. This was followed by 8-10 more single orbs coming into view one at a time from the exact same spot in the east (behind the trees so we could not see where it was) into the clear night sky and disappearing into the west – where trees also blocked our view to the west but you could visually follow the lights a greater distance that direction. These orbs were in high the sky where you would notice airplane lights. At one point we did see an airplane in the distance somewhat below the orbs. The orbs appeared to be closer to us than the plane. We also noticed a glowing, a pulsating light that lit up a large area of the sky behind the trees, this light appeared caused by something ground level, it shined behind the trees and into the sky below the spot where the orbs first came into view – this reflection of light was similar to what you would see if there were a fire or something, and trees or buildings blocked your view of what was creating the light – but there were no sirens or noise of any kind. We ran to the computer to see if we could find out if there was something happening nearby, fire/emergency, but could find no information. We continued to watch the single orbs come into view one by one and eventually the glowing ground level light was gone when we looked back for it. During this time we also saw 4 rotating searchlights shining up to the cloud cover, the commercial type that are used to promote grand openings and things like. These were shining into the sky underneath where the orbs were traveling east to west, but did not reach up as high as where we were watching the orbs. We do have a small airport in the area but we did not think the searchlights coincided with the airport location. It was pretty hard to tell distances as the backyard we were in was lined with very tall trees and there are many tall trees behind those trees too. One in our group was able to video the sky with his iPad but was not interested reporting the incident or releasing the video.