Did anyone else see those lights over Lake Tahoe last Thursday night?

Didn't see it myself - I'm over in Durham, UK so obviously not nearby - but I'm genuinely curious about something. A mate of mine was visiting family near Reno around that time and mentioned seeing something odd over the water on the drive back Thursday evening, lights in a triangular formation that just stopped moving then shot off sideways. He's not into any of this stuff at all, which honestly makes me take it a bit more seriously than if it came from one of us lot.

My question is, did the lights seem to be at a consistent altitude or were they changing height as well? I've been looking into interdimensional entity sightings and there's apparently a pattern where craft or whatever they are will hold a fixed elevation for a period before the directional shift happens. Just wondering if what you saw matches that kind of behaviour. Also did anyone manage to get any photos, even blurry phone shots? Even bad images can tell you something if you look at the metadata and compare timestamps with other witnesses.

@grizzled_weasel your post got cut off mate, but I'll say this - Lake Tahoe has a surprisingly consistent history of sighting reports going back decades. The altitude and the way light refracts over the water at night can do weird things, but some of those reports don't fit easy explanations.

If your mate was near Reno that Thursday, Nellis Air Force Base airspace isn't a million miles away and there's a lot of... let's call it "unusual air traffic" in that corridor. Worth asking him exactly what direction the lights were moving and whether they made any sound. That detail tends to separate the boring explanations from the actually interesting ones. Would love to hear what he actually saw when you get the full story.