2009-03-15 - Phoenix, AZ - Triangle

The Phoenix Lights, 17 Years Later

The Phoenix Lights 17 Years Later.

March 15, 2009, between 21:30 and 22:30 I-10 South of Phoenix, East of South Mountain.

I was driving back to my job in Tucson on Sunday night, (03/15/2009) from visiting my wife in Ontario, California. I was driving on I-10 just south of Phoenix, east of South Mountain.

I saw the stars being blacked out by something huge (UFO) moving in the air. A big rig truck a lane or two to the right slowed down and the driver leans forward to look up through his windshield. Other drivers also slow down and look up.

I take my foot off of the accelerator to look up through the large front windshield of my 1983 Toyota Supra and see something big, black, slow and silent, couldn’t hear anything but the road noise of the cars and trucks on the freeway. This “UFO” was moving from behind me (North) in a South-East direction.

I then noticed a small flare, bottle rocket or meteorite come from above the huge UFO and hit the leading edge of the left wing and break up into many small pieces. It really looked like a lit meteorite hitting the leading edge of the left “wing” and then brea! king into many lit pieces. I thought this was very strange that a meteorite would just happen to fall to hit this very unusual object as it glided over, a strange coincident indeed.

I was driving about 70-75 mph in that stretch of the freeway and the object was moving slightly faster over me in a Southeast direction. I then thought the object which hit the UFO could have been a bottle rocked but I thought again about this because when it hit, it sounded like a pebble hitting something made of metal because it made a slight ringing sound. I remained uncertain as to what I had observed as I completed my drive home to Tucson.

The next day the incident was all over the papers but I still didn’t make the connection to what I saw because when I saw the UFO I didn’t see any Lights other than the “meteorite” which broke up when it hit the left “wing” and shatter into lit pieces. The UFO was totally black, blocking out the stars as it passed but seemed to be slightly illuminated by the city lights below.

Years later, I read people accounts stating that they felt no fear. I recall that I also did not feel fear but more curiosity and confusion, like, "What Is That???"

I’ve seen large planes up close before, B-52, B-747, C-5, Hughes Aircraft Co.’s Spruce Goose, and the Space Shuttle, etc. None can compare.