NUFORC Sighting 87132

Occurred: 2012-02-08 20:00 Local
Reported: 2012-02-10 18:22 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Marana, AZ, USA

Shape: Light


Strange orange lights in the sky over Marana, Az.

At approximately 8 pm on Wed. Feb. 8, 2012, I was sitting in my backyard looking into the western horizon above Marana, Az. I saw an orange light appear that appeared to be floating into the sky. Immediately after the first light caught my eye, I noticed another appear. Then it was two or three at a time lighting up until there were 20 of them. They moved across the sky in a smooth manner fading in and out intermittently in a random pattern.

I ran in the house to get my camera and when I returned the number of lights were down to about 10. They were in a formation that appears to be stable with a light at rear that seemed to float a mile or so behind the others. The lights were far in the distance but they seemed to span maybe a mile or so from the light at one end of the group to the cluster of them on the other end.

When I originally saw them, I was describing them to my sister (on the phone) as looking like floating Chinese luminaria lanterns. I was able to video the lights for a bit more than a minute, during which the light eventually faded out one by one until they were suddenly just gone. Never going up into the sky, or down towards the ground. They just vanished in mid flight. I have no explanations for what I saw. It was not plane(s), helicopters, or the like. The entire time that I watched them was approximately 10 minutes.

Posted 2012-03-13

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