Appearance / Description of Object(s)

It had a red light at the tail of it that occasionally turned quickly on and off (slight flash). The front lights were a series of lights, between 6-8 white, circular lights that were all on, but one. This is hard to describe, but one light would turn off, in the row of lights, and turn back on as the next one turned off. It repeated this pattern, across the entire row, and back again. Resembles the kind of lighting effects that are used on games we see at the fair, or Peter Piper Pizza, for example. As I have lived in direct sight of Sky Harbor’s flight path for landing/taking off over the last 4 years, I have watched aircraft during the day and at night time. I know what helicopters look like, and how aircraft are supposed to have one red and one green light (to indicate which direction they are flying to other aircraft) and this did not have these lights. Like I said, the only red light was at the tail. The object moved slowly, similar to that of a police helicopter, using their search light to find a criminal. The bright white lights making a pattern, as the object flew, was very usual, let alone unsettling. The object made little sound, very slight puttering sound, but almost nothing at all.

Size of Object(s)

The object was probably 0.5-1 mile wide. Relatively small in the sky, about the size of 3 helicopters put together.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

Within 1-5 miles away, about the altitude of commercial planes landing within 2 miles of the runway.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Urban area, within 5 miles of Sky Harbor International Airport.

Full Description & Details

I live near Rural Road and University, in proximity to ASU’s Tempe campus. As two friends of mine were leaving, one got in his car and drove off, the other called for me to quickly come over and look up. As we can only see the “aircraft” from one angle, below us, the object was a circle shape, so likely some kind of saucer/disk. It’s altitude was near what typical, large commercial passenger planes reach as they are approaching landing, near Mill Avenue bridge. The aircraft proceeded to head mostly south, in a slightly west direction. When I witnessed the aircraft, it appeared to be 1-2 miles from me, over head. It silently floated in the sky, as it traveled down over the rest of Tempe (until it was out of my sight).

As my friend and I were watching it slowly drift away, another neighbor came outside to go to their car as well. We called to her immediately, notifying her if she wanted to see a UFO to come quick. She came over and watched with us, as she called her roommate to come outside. By the time the roommate (4th witness) came outside to meet us, all he could see was the red light in the far distance (unable to tell the difference between this and another local Sky-Harbor related aircraft).

To describe the object:

It had a red light at the tail of it that occasionally turned quickly on and off (slight flash). The front lights were a series of lights, between 6-8 white, circular lights that were all on, but one. This is hard to describe, but one light would turn off, in the row of lights, and turn back on as the next one turned off. It repeated this pattern, across the entire row, and back again. Resembles the kind of lighting effects that are used on games we see at the fair, or Peter Piper Pizza, for example.

As I have lived in direct sight of Sky Harbor’s flight path for landing/taking off over the last 4 years, I have watched aircraft during the day and at night time. I know what helicopters look like, and how aircraft are supposed to have one red and one green light (to indicate which direction they are flying to other aircraft) and this did not have these lights. Like I said, the only red light was at the tail. The object moved slowly, similar to that of a police helicopter, using their search light to find a criminal. The bright white lights making a pattern, as the object flew, was very usual, let alone unsettling. The object made little sound, very slight puttering sound, but almost nothing at all.

The first witness, my friend, saw the object first, about 30 seconds before I did, when it was a little closer. He describes the object in the same matter, except for the red light seemed to be on the top of the object, and the white lights were the parameter of the object, as it slowly spun around itself. By the time I could see the object, the red light seemed to be a “tail”, because of the angle I was viewing it from.



I am a 21 year old female, just graduated from ASU. The other observers are one male, 22 year old, current ASU student. The other witness, another resident at this apartment complex off 8th street and Dorsey, is about 19-20 years old. Her roommate is male, between 21-24 years old.

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

No

Witness Background

21 year old female, just graduated with two Bachelor of Science degrees from the WP Carey school of Business at Arizona State University.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I have watched the documentary of Lights over Phoenix, as I was a young girl when this happened, and only remember seeing a strange row of lights in the distance. I believe in other life forms, of course, and I think our government has contacted these other forms and harvest their technology for our technological development.

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