NUFORC Sighting 38247

Occurred: 2004-07-20 22:15 Local
Reported: 2004-07-21 19:33 Pacific
Duration: 150min
No of observers: 2

Location: West Phoenix, AZ, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Brights lights southwest of Phoenix near Palo Verde Nuclear Power plant

I was driving my 18 wheeler west on I-10 at about 20 miles west of Phoenix I noticed two bright glowing lights southwest of of my direction and just east of the Palo Verde nuclear power plant. They were very bright in the sky along the foot hills that run on the south of the freeway.I was at about a 10 mile distance from where i was and the lights in the sky. The lights were a bright orange, kinda like a street light,these two balls of light side by side of each other and as I was looking at them all of a sudden they just slowly fadded away and then reappeared further west of the first time seen, but this time the lights were on top of each other for about 5-6 min.I had just pulled off the freeway so that I could view them thruogh my binoculars but all I could make out was the bright light, and no formation. What was Kinda rare was to see what seem to be some jets fling close to the lights in a circling motion.Then all of a sudden they slowly dimmed out into the night sky. I could still see the jets fling around since i could hear them. I Didnt see the lights anymore, also a Driver that was running with me saw this as well.

Posted 2004-07-25