or fourth five minutes watching the patterns flash. then something stranger happened. we noticed lights flying into the cloud from the left and from the right. i timed the lights and it took about 12 seconds for the lights to come back out the other side (this gives you an idea of the size). apparently they passed each other in the cloud, each flying out the other side. they looped slowly toward us. in a few seconds a third light flew out of the middle of the cloud and joined the other two in a standard military “v” formation, and they flew directly over us. i am confident these where 