2003-10-05 - Phoenix, AZ - Formation

There was a constellation of "stars" in the sky, except it was broad daylight and no clouds, some moved, then they faded away.

I was on my way back home while out taking an evening walk. I noticed nine shining objects in the sky (I was facing East and they would have been located between 45 and 90 degrees up, left of center vision area. The top three were further distance apart. I looked away to see if anyone else was around, when I looked back up the object on the far right was now on the far left. Three in the center we very close together and one of those three looked very red, about three others appeared to be reddish on the right side - I think that was from reflecting the evening sun, which was behind me. Three of the objects moved to the right. One that was moving form a perfect rectangle to the three that were close together, then kept moving to the left. They did not move like airplanes or other known aircraft. Five of them did not appear to be moving. They were so high up that I could not tell exacctly what they were or exactly how they were shaped. At first I expected whatever they were to be moving closer to the earth (gravity), but it happened in the opposite way. Slowly they began to fade away, as if moving further out into space. Two remained slightly visible for several more minutes. They looked like sparkling stars, except it was broad daylight and there were no clouds in the sky. It was much too elaborate to be military - they were too far away and too stationery for too long.