NUFORC Sighting 95777

Occurred: 2012-12-31 21:00 Local
Reported: 2013-01-03 12:28 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 4

Location: Glendale, AZ, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Changed Colo

bright orange sphere that turned into a star in less than a second

On New Years Eve around 9pm I and 3 friends were having dinner outside. I was seated facing west and looked up to the sky and noticed a bright orange/red circle of light. Immediately I stood up and said, "Hey, what is that?"

There were no navigation lights visible, no strobe flashing and was very close to Luke air force base which is about 6 miles west of our location.

It appeared to cut to the south briefly then north all while moving east directly towards us. No sound could be heard and it stayed a constant glow.

Just short of being directly overhead of us it stopped and hovered for about 5 seconds then turned into an incredibly bright white light, and shot straight up and appeared to be a star in a matter of a split second then faded out of sight.

It was too high to begin with to be any type of fireworks not to mention traveling horizontally for too great a distance. this was not any type of Aircraft that we are familiar with.

Later that same evening, it was witnessed again by 2 other friends and was described exactly the same, as turning into a star.

Posted 2013-02-04