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.
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.
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Glendale
USA
2 minutes
2 minutes
33.58
-112.19
fireball
AZ
Occurred : 12/31/2012 21:00 (Entered as : 12/31/2012 21:00) Reported: 1/3/2013 12:28:30 PM 12:28 Posted: 2/4/2013 Location: Glendale, AZ Shape: Fireball Duration: 2 minutes Characteristics: The object changed color
Bright orange sphere that turned into a star in less than a second.