Four bright orange lights spotted over Budd Lake

 9-4 BUDD LAKE NEW JERSEY

While driving home early in the evening, we pulled into the parking lot of a shopping center when I immediately spotted four bright orange objects in the sky that were out of place in the area. The sky was slightly overcast with a crescent moon visible. 

Once we pulled into a parking space, I got out of my vehicle for a better look and observed four very bright objects (more luminous than any planet or star in the night sky but not as bright as the moon) moving across the sky from west to east. They appeared from behind trees along the western horizon and moved at a relative speed comparable to a high altitude commercial jetliner. Each light glowed with an orange tinge and, while in close proximity to each other, moved independently, with no observable structure linking them together.

There was no direction change and as they appeared directly overhead, they all “fizzled” out at different times. Another witness in a darker area than us stated she could see individual structures around each light which she would compare to helicopters, but absolutely no noise was heard by anybody. I observed after their disappearance ambient glowing from each object for another several minutes before they disappeared.