Appearance / Description of Object(s)

7 white lights 1 at point and 3 on either side in roughly a 150% angle. Brightness was about like that of 7 bright stars... It looked to me like a formation of helicopters at first, but silent even directly overhead.

Size of Object(s)

span from finger tip to finger tip with arms outstretched, about 30 inches... If this was 1500 ft high, I would estimate 1-2000 ft wide and about 3 to 600 ft from point to back , if a lin were drawn across the end lights...

Description of Area / Surroundings

Urban; houses; and Phoenix Mountain Preserves due North. Sky Harbor International 5 miles south to western end of runway, due south.

Full Description & Details

At about 8PM on a clear evening, My wife and I observed a V shaped object with 7 lights come directly over our residence at 23rd St and Whitton.

The object apeared at first like a formation of helicopters aproaching from due north and flying directly over our home, 1 blk west of 24th street.

The first thing I noticed was the size, which led me to believe it was a formation of helicopters, but as it came closer... (from the first spotting it was about 45 degrees up and to the north, until it was at about 80 degrees up and north, was about 10 to 15 seconds), at that point I realized there was no sound of any kind.

Reasoning, that no helecopters could be that quiet, we began to look for visible outlines, of which we could see none, even with the lights of Phoenix, there should have been a reflection off of an underside, but none were visible.

It seemed like it took about 30 seconds for this to reach direct overhead and spanned approximately 40 to 45% of the overhead sky and took roughly a 2 or 3 minutes more to reach the west end of the Sky Harbor runway.

It stayed on a direct course south at what appeared to me, of an approximate elevation of, say 1500 to 2000 feet, along 23rd street still heading south.

The width struck me from my observation, that the span of the lights were almost twice the size of a 757 and the entire time this object was visible the shape never changed.

Total time elapsed was about 5 to 7 minutes before visability was obscured by smog and haze (typically the lights on South Mountain can be seen well from our house, and I recall this thing disappering eventually beyond the South Mountain at roughly 32nd street, maybe 40th and disappeared from view.

Total time elapsed was about 8 minutes or so.

To our total amazement, the photos we have seen since, are exactly what we saw!

I wish I could say the stars above were blocked by this thing, but I am not certain.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

I do not think this was a natural object, nor do I believe this was any 'conventional' man made object. I do however believe this could very well have been a secret 'Stealth' experimental mission of some sort. I thought of blimps, but you would have seen an outline and reflection from the lights below. Some sort of glider or silent running formation I suppose is possible, but would certainly be every bit as high tech as a large silent plane or silently powered glider of some sort.

Witness Background

Home building repair and remoldeling and design. GED with trade school and 4 years college classes.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I believe now and did then that UFOs are much more likely to be Top Secret Man Made Missions than some extra- terrestrial sightings. I have listened to many extraterrastrial claims and have heard nothing that cannot be easily explained as mans own secret technologies, mind control, and delusion.

Other Comments

I believe it is our own Military who wants us to believe there is an extraterrestrial coverup conspiracy. It is a conspiracy all right, but is designed to keep people off track and not focused on our own technological advances, by believing in the extraterrestrial cover up instead of the Top Secret Coverup.

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