Woman Sees Large Light and Smaller Lights Move in Figure 8 Like Pattern

Date: February 19, 2006
Time of Sighting: 2 AM EST
Date Reported: February 19, 2006
Duration of Sighting: Not Known
Location of Sighting: Plymouth, Massachusetts
Latitude:  41.9 Degrees North
Longitude: 70.6 Degrees West
Number of Witnesses: One
Weather: Clear. Visibility 10 Miles.
Astronomical: Moon Visible to Southeast (147 Degrees Azimuth and 24 Degrees Elevation).  Moon Was in Waning Gibbous Phase (68% Illumination).

Description (In Witness's Own Words):  I had sighting on the east side of crescent moon in a south easterly direction. One more was located below the initial sighting. The object was big and bright it moved in a figure eight like pattern. It had bright lights seemingly detached from it. The lights did not go around simultaneously in a pattern but definitely seemed to surround full area of object. The one below it was identical but seemed a bit smaller.

Investigator's Notes: The witness is referring to the crescent moon as a reference point in her sighting so the light that she was looking at was not the moon.  Like most night sightings it is difficult to identify what the witness sighted.  More information and witnesses would be necessary to make an identification (or conclude that sighting was unidentified).  In subsequent message the witness said that several lights moved in varying patterns.