3 Orange Orbs Over S Pinal County
I am ((age deleted--young)), a ((specialty deleted)) technician at Evergreen Air Center. While that doesn't hardly justify me as a credible witness, I've been around aircraft all my life. I work at an air station where we see everything from Cessnas to B757s. It is my opinion that what I have seen is either not man-made or not conventionally identified per FAA regulations and as such should have been forced to land for their altitude was far greater than 500 feet. So, to the incident... I was talking to my mother outside while she watered plants in the front yard when I noticed a single orange light. It didn't dawn on me that it was there until it instantly disappeared. When I commented on it she turned around and suddenly 3 orange orbs appeared. I could not gauge the distance except to say that we live 8 miles to the east of I-10 and these were hovering over the valley and north of Evergreen, where I work, which is 3 miles west of I-10. As we watched they disappeared one by one. I was tempted to get a camera, tried to get my father to see them but he was unavailable. They disappeared after only 2 minutes. I did not see any signs that they were man made aircraft. They did not have strobe lights. I heard no sound, but since I'm assuming they were at least 11 miles away I probably would not have heard a helicopter from that distance. However, I have ruled out helicopters because if the lights had been spots, they did not go out gradually as if turning, and given the distance spots would not be focused 11 miles away, they would be focused downward, and finally why would 3 be focused in my direction. Given the apparent distance and their apparent separation of 1 to 2 miles from each other, I would surmise that they would have to be purposely focusing on my house. Not a likely prospect. Hence, they were not spots but simply bright lights. But as the lights went out, I should have seen the strobes. Also, the objects seemed to disappear in correlation with known man-made aircraft entering the same airspac! e. Incidentally, it was a near full moon.
This was the first of two sightings, but I'll file a follow up for the second.
((NUFORC Note: Date indicated is approximate. Please see other report. PD))
I am ((age deleted--young)), a ((specialty deleted)) technician at Evergreen Air Center. While that doesn't hardly justify me as a credible witness, I've been around aircraft all my life. I work at an air station where we see everything from Cessnas to B757s. It is my opinion that what I have seen is either not man-made or not conventionally identified per FAA regulations and as such should have been forced to land for their altitude was far greater than 500 feet. So, to the incident... I was talking to my mother outside while she watered plants in the front yard when I noticed a single orange light. It didn't dawn on me that it was there until it instantly disappeared. When I commented on it she turned around and suddenly 3 orange orbs appeared. I could not gauge the distance except to say that we live 8 miles to the east of I-10 and these were hovering over the valley and north of Evergreen, where I work, which is 3 miles west of I-10. As we watched they disappeared one by one. I was tempted to get a camera, tried to get my father to see them but he was unavailable. They disappeared after only 2 minutes. I did not see any signs that they were man made aircraft. They did not have strobe lights. I heard no sound, but since I'm assuming they were at least 11 miles away I probably would not have heard a helicopter from that distance. However, I have ruled out helicopters because if the lights had been spots, they did not go out gradually as if turning, and given the distance spots would not be focused 11 miles away, they would be focused downward, and finally why would 3 be focused in my direction. Given the apparent distance and their apparent separation of 1 to 2 miles from each other, I would surmise that they would have to be purposely focusing on my house. Not a likely prospect. Hence, they were not spots but simply bright lights. But as the lights went out, I should have seen the strobes. Also, the objects seemed to disappear in correlation with known man-made aircraft entering the same airspac! e. Incidentally, it was a near full moon.
This was the first of two sightings, but I'll file a follow up for the second.
((NUFORC Note: Date indicated is approximate. Please see other report. PD))
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Marana
USA
2 minutes
2 minutes
32.42
-111.22
light
AZ
Occurred : 9/10/2003 20:10 (Entered as : 09/10/2003 20:10) Reported: 9/15/2003 9:33:29 PM 21:33 Posted: 9/17/2003 Location: Marana, AZ Shape: Light Duration: 2 minutes Characteristics: There were lights on the object, There were aircraft in the vicinity or aircraft chasing the object
3 Orange Orbs Over S Pinal County