Occurred: 1997-07-04 21:00 Local
Reported: 1999-07-21 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 2-3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

a large black object kind of like a shadow passed over head while we were waiting for the fire works to start

We had parked in a dark lot in downtown phoenix to watch the fireworks. We were sitting in a convertable with the top down.

While my daughter was looking around at the crowd of people walking around, I was star gazing and watching the local tv helicopters flying in a big circle around the downtown area.

I looked down for a second to say something to my daughter and when I looked up again, I made a comment that the copters must have run out of gas because they were gone. Still looking up, I noticed what i thought was a huge cloud passing over head but it was I thought to low to be a cloud and was moving too fast, and against the wind, from north to south.

Before Icould get my daughter to see it it had passed.

Well she didn't belive but I convinced her to watch the sky with me. Well the copters returned after awhile but than left again as fast as they had come back .we thought they went to refuel still looking up Isaw it again.

This time my daughter saw it and we watched it for what seemed like minutes all the while describing to each other what we were seeing we both agree it was big and dark with no lights like a giant shadow that blocked out the stars as it passed. Soon after the copters returned we never saw it again.

Posted 2002-05-14

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