bright light over desert in el paso tx 1984

we were in the desert sitting in bleachers listing to our instructor about night fire (shooting at night) a bright white light started moving toward us ithougth it was a helicopter maybe 2 hun ft high it stop moving it made no sound so i thought it was sme secret mil craft oh it was a clear night and a fuul moon the objects light began to glow brighter and brighter until it out shine the moon and was bigger it slowly separated into 4 smaller lights they moved away from each other at the same level and at one point were miles away from each otherthis of coures caused a great comotion but our instructor commanded us to pay attention and he never turned around to see what was happening the 4 smaller ligths came back together and formed the big light and then left in an instant we were all saying what the fu was that anyway the next mourning when i tried to talk to people about the incident i swear no one would acknowlege what we had all seen and responded to the night before also while i am at it that was not the first time when i was 10ys old and had just learned what the colour of stars meant i saw a orange object that looked like a top hat it tilted to the left for moment then in an instant flew away.and there was another time when i was 15 when one night about 9 of me and my friends were lying on our backs on a friends gargage we saw what appreared to be lights playing pin ball with each other in the sky it lasted 30in or more heres the thing next day nobody remembered except me none of did any kind of drugs and i do care if you believe or not that was what i and others saw
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