NUFORC Sighting 93357

Occurred: 2012-10-05 20:00 Local
Reported: 2012-10-06 11:07 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Peoria, AZ, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

My wife and I were sitting on our back porch facing north in our home in Peoria, when we observed a fireball that looked like a comet only very large and close. This fireball went out and then then appeared to be just plane lights, with a red light and a white strobe, just like any other plane at light. Something then dropped from this object, whatever it was had a white light.

At first we believed it was a plane burning up with a piece that fell off, but whatever it was appeared have a small white light on it, not like a burning object falling. That object did not appear to fall as fast as something falling to earth. It could have been something dropped with a parachute with a light attached.

We watched it with appeared to be plane lights which then appeared to fly in a circle for about a couple of minutes. Then it straightened out and headed in the direction of Sky Harbor airport in Phx, descending as would a normal plane coming in for a landing.

This whole time we believed it might be a plane with some serious mechanical problems, but whatever it dropped was out of the ordinary and we couldn’t find any mention of any unusual occurrences on any news reports.

Posted 2012-10-30

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