2 sets of 3-4 orange lights (non-moving and silent) in sky over mountain range in horizontal position.
At approximately 8:45 p.m. on Monday, June 14, 2004, my husband and I were driving southwest on McDowell Mountain Ranch Road between Paradise Lane and 105th Street in Scottsdale, AZ. We both noticed 2 sets of 3-4 orange lights (non-moving and silent)in a horizontal position in the sky over a mountain range in the distance. We witnessed this for approximately 2 minutes while driving this short stretch of McDowell Mountain Ranch Road and dismissed it as possibly some type of city lights in the distance. When we turned, we could no longer see the lights due to buildings and trees obscuring the path.
On Tuesday, June 15th when driving the same stretch of McDowell Mountain Ranch Road at approximately the same time, we realized that the "city lights" we thought we had seen were not there.
Later that evening, I went out alone to run an errand and get gas. At 10:45 p.m., (this time I noted the time)I was travelling west on Bell Road and at the corner of Bell Road and Thompson Peak Parkway, I noticed a set of two lights in the sky, almost identical (in shape and color) to the lights I saw the night before. I also observed some planes in the sky and determined these lights were much larger in size and different in color from the plane lights. I called my husband who was at home (1 mile from my location) and he saw the same lights from an upstairs window. My vision became obscured by trees and apartments (I was driving) while he continued to watch. He said he could see 4 lights and then they blinked off and there were only 2 lights. When they came back into my view, we both observed they appeared to be slightly changing colors from orange to orangish red. I continued to drive and lost sight again due to driving into a lower elevation. My husband observed them blink off and then he could no longer see them.
I pulled into the local gas station at the corner of McDowell Mountain Ranch Road and Thompson Peak Parkway asked an employee if anyone had mentioned these lights and she said she spoke to a man the previous evening who reported seeing them at approximately the same time (8:45p.m.) that we had seen them. However, he said he saw two lights separate and multiply to four lights and then separate and multiply to eight lights and then remain stationary in the sky for several minutes before taking off.
((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness via telephone, and we found her to be exceptionally lucid, objective, and credible. Please see other reports for June 14 and June 15 from this area. PD))
At approximately 8:45 p.m. on Monday, June 14, 2004, my husband and I were driving southwest on McDowell Mountain Ranch Road between Paradise Lane and 105th Street in Scottsdale, AZ. We both noticed 2 sets of 3-4 orange lights (non-moving and silent)in a horizontal position in the sky over a mountain range in the distance. We witnessed this for approximately 2 minutes while driving this short stretch of McDowell Mountain Ranch Road and dismissed it as possibly some type of city lights in the distance. When we turned, we could no longer see the lights due to buildings and trees obscuring the path.
On Tuesday, June 15th when driving the same stretch of McDowell Mountain Ranch Road at approximately the same time, we realized that the "city lights" we thought we had seen were not there.
Later that evening, I went out alone to run an errand and get gas. At 10:45 p.m., (this time I noted the time)I was travelling west on Bell Road and at the corner of Bell Road and Thompson Peak Parkway, I noticed a set of two lights in the sky, almost identical (in shape and color) to the lights I saw the night before. I also observed some planes in the sky and determined these lights were much larger in size and different in color from the plane lights. I called my husband who was at home (1 mile from my location) and he saw the same lights from an upstairs window. My vision became obscured by trees and apartments (I was driving) while he continued to watch. He said he could see 4 lights and then they blinked off and there were only 2 lights. When they came back into my view, we both observed they appeared to be slightly changing colors from orange to orangish red. I continued to drive and lost sight again due to driving into a lower elevation. My husband observed them blink off and then he could no longer see them.
I pulled into the local gas station at the corner of McDowell Mountain Ranch Road and Thompson Peak Parkway asked an employee if anyone had mentioned these lights and she said she spoke to a man the previous evening who reported seeing them at approximately the same time (8:45p.m.) that we had seen them. However, he said he saw two lights separate and multiply to four lights and then separate and multiply to eight lights and then remain stationary in the sky for several minutes before taking off.
((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness via telephone, and we found her to be exceptionally lucid, objective, and credible. Please see other reports for June 14 and June 15 from this area. PD))
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Scottsdale
USA
33.59
-111.90
sphere
AZ
Occurred : 6/14/2004 20:45 (Entered as : 06/14/2004 20:45) Reported: 6/16/2004 7:55:03 PM 19:55 Posted: 6/18/2004 Location: Scottsdale, AZ Shape: Sphere Characteristics: There were lights on the object
2 sets of 3-4 orange lights (non-moving and silent) in sky over mountain range in horizontal position.