Shape of Object(s)

shape of an aircraft with wings slanted back; angular

Color of Object(s):

Solid white with glimpses of a black outline

Full Description & Details

The sky was solid blue. Appearance was clear and each object seemed to be in the shape of some aircraft with slanted back wings. They were solid white but did get occasional glimpses of a black outline. Wondered if they were birds as they appeared to make several typical, although lopsided, V formations in groups of varied numbers. Counted them about four times coming up with 13 objects. They seemed to float and swirl breaking up into various sized groups then come back together randomly. When they floated into a single continuous line an equal distance from each other I began to wonder if they were balloons all tethered together. They appeared to be forming a question mark - curved at one end. Then they split off again so could not have been balloons. I see many aircraft over South Mountain climbing from Sky Harbour Airport. These were much smaller making me think the objects were at a much higher altitude. No noise, no exhaust, no blinking lights. I viewed them from a parking lot at 40th Street and Pecos Road and noticed another vehicle had pulled in to observe also. That driver appeared to be on a cell phone. We both left when the objects were overhead. I supposed if we had turned our vehicles we could have watched for much longer. I pulled out of the lot onto Pecos Road driving West and passed a news van/truck pulled off the side of the road. It's side read "Noticea 33" so assume that it was from a local Spanish News station. I have no idea if they were there to film this sight, but it leaves me very curious. Upon checking my cable TV listings, I found no channel 33 logo on the Spanish cable stations and wonder if they were from Tucson, AZ. The Ahwatukee area could be of news interest for other reasons. I am trying to reason out if these could be birds but all the migrating birds that I have seen in the past stayed in their formations and were deliberate in their flight. The grouping I saw floated and swirled as if in play. My bird books, which do show some underbellies of birds with white and outlined in black, do not describe flight patterns or other in flight movements. I would also think that birds moving around like that would have wing movement.

Witness Background

College grad., housewife, husband is an engineer. Former travel consultant, world traveler. Frequent hiker at South Mountain.

Other Comments

My first "sighting".

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