NUFORC Sighting 31460

Occurred: 2003-09-14 02:00 Local
Reported: 2003-09-14 05:12 Pacific
Duration: 2 hrs.
No of observers: 3

Location: Mesa, AZ, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

Tripod shaped object with red, blue, and yellow/white flashing lights hovering and or moving over the east valley.

While visiting with friends, one stated that he had been observing strangely lighted objects in the sky over the course of the last few weeks (he observed these in Apache Junction aprx. 20 miles East of this sighting). So we went out to take a look and he didnt even need to show me, I saw right away what he was talking about. There were about five with one of them being either larger then the others or just closer. They all eminated from first glance what appeared to be three lighted orbs in a triangular shape and flashing/sometimes sparking off blue red and yellow lights, the red lights seemed to be on the sides(vs. the apex of the structure) It was difficult to make out how many there were because they did resemble a bright star or a planet. But the give away was the red lights on the tips and the fact that they "seemed" to move around. The important one to talk about it the closer or larger one...this one was off to the right (south east) of the others. It was bizarre, it also had the tripod like shape from the naked eye but when you used binoculars, you couldn't make out a shape, just flashing red blue and yellow/white lights, flashing quickly and it seemed to look like panals of lights, like six panels three on top and three on bottem with no shape in between, but from the naked eye there seemed to be shape that changed sometimes it looked like probes would be circulating around the object it also seemed like there was a hazey white area that would extend out of it like fog or steam but it would be just for an instant...also you couldnt tell if the craft was moving or not and at one time it seemed to be moving quickly towards our direction only a few seconds later to seem evern farther away then it was before, it also seemed to be "dipping" part of itself in and out of the clouds or the haze that it was producing, at one point the object looked as if it turned on its side and without a doubt I made out two wing like shapes that were very long and pointed they were shaped like long d! iamond shaped swords, they were narrow it made the craft look sort of geese like, but then out of nowhere its shape became enigmatic again. with out a doubt, what we saw was not a natural part of the constellation (i.e. star, planet) we just thought it might be interesting to see if others had similar sightings and from what we see, it looks like whatever we saw tonight others in the area and south. cal have been also sighting these red blue and yellow white flashing things. well if there is any thing we can do to help let us know. Thanks. Oh our background is, well we are all twenty somethings with 2 of us having B.A. degrees with some grad school classes. I personally am a very overworked and busy single mother of three who trust me doesnt need more drama in her life then what is already present. The things that we saw (they are still there right now, same place) they were definantly strange and not anything that we could explaing through our experiences. We will try to video tape objects tomorrow if they are still around…

NUFORC Note:

We suspect that "twinkling" stars would be the first possible explanation for some of the objects sighted. That is surmise on our part. PD

Posted 2003-09-17