(This is an edited UFO story sent via email to your Oregon MUFON Assistant State Director, Keith Rowell, in April 2010 by Oregon resident Joe Smith (pseudonym).  Joe works in the aviation industry and knows his aircraft well.)

UFO Type: Triangle formation of lights.

Sighting Duration: About 5 to 10 seconds.

Date: Around May 15, 2009.

Time: About 2 AM.

Place: Willamina, Oregon.

Witness: Joe Smith (pseudonym).

Around the middle of May in 2009, it was about 2 AM and I woke up and could not get back to sleep, so I got up and got into my outdoor jacuzzi to try to relax so I could get back to sleep.  I was lying there admiring all the stars since it was a perfectly clear night, and then, out of the south, a cluster of dim lights sort of faded in and were heading my way.

They were so unusual that I couldn't stop looking as they drew closer, making a shallow left hand turn.  I saw that the lights consisted of about two dozen separate flickering/vibrating lights in a perfect triangle formation. There  were lights also inside the triangle, not just the perimeter.

I could see stars through the formation so the formation wasn't a large craft with lots of lights. It passed directly over head, vibrating and holding a perfect formation. It appeared that something was illuminated by each of the formation's dim lights -- like maybe really light [-weight] fabric capes flapping in the wind.

I do not know the altitude or speed since I had no size reference. The sighting lasted about five to ten seconds before the lights sort of faded out to the north.

A few days later, when I was getting my hair cut, I talked about my sighting and the hairdresser said she'd seen exactly the same thing in our area about 15 times over the past 20 years!

Joe Smith's Sketch of the Formation