Size of Object(s)

100'

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

less than a mile

Shape of Object(s)

disk

Color of Object(s):

unknown, orange lights

Full Description & Details

Driving from Lake Havasu City, AZ to Palm Desert, CA on May 6, 2005 at about 8:00 or so in the evening I saw an orangish unfamiliar light in the distance that came and went every so often. I first noticed the lights at about Vidal Junction and a couple more times within an hour. When my boyfriend and I got on the I-10 west at Desert Center I asked him if he knew what "that light" was. That particular stretch of the I-10 has a low mountain range on the left side (if going west) and perhaps 20 - 40 miles down the freeway something must have caught our attention because we both looked to the left just in time to see an enormous object rise up from behind the mountain, the left side of it tilted down and it sort of bobbed up and down once. It remained there for what seemed to be at least 30 seconds or so and then went down behind the mountain again. If I had to guess I would say it was within a mile away from the freeway, probably less.

Since it was pitch black desert at night, it was somewhat difficult to tell just how big it really was but, the mountains were illuminated just enough to use as a reference and this thing was definitely big. Still, it was too dark to see the body of it but, there were several, maybe 5 or 6, very bright orange round lights in a horizontal line on the exterior. Given the slight bow in the line of lights it did appear to have an overall disk like shape. It resembled the Phoenix Lights quite a bit and the area where we spotted it is about a half hour west of Blythe where the Phoenix Lights were heavily witnessed. There were also several people who pulled to the side of the freeway to, I assume, get a better look.

Interestingly enough it did seem as though it also travelled to the west. We believe we saw the same object hovering just above the southwest foothills that border the Coachella Valley in the Indio / La Quinta area. However, the lights, although still visible, were very dim and had we not seen it lit up earlier we would have never noticed it lingering there in incognito mode, so to speak.

Shortly there after we were home and I was not about to go outside and look for it; it was a little too close and way too big for comfort.

Witness Background

Female, PC Tech, bachelor degree, no experience in anything UFO related other than just casual interest.

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