NUFORC Sighting 180065

Occurred: 2024-01-14 17:18 Local
Reported: 2024-01-15 17:06 Pacific
Duration: 20 minutes or more
No of observers: 2

Location: Oro Valley, AZ, USA
Location details: The object hovered and flew over the Catalina Mountains

Shape: Oval
Color: Bright Red
Estimated Size: Airplane size?
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: East
Angle of Elevation: 90
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

I could tell from my backyard there was a big red object hovering in the sky, we observed it for over 20 minutes and took pictures.

I first noticed the large red object over the Catalina mountains that I have a clear view of from my backyard. It was hovering and was way up in the air. As I watched it was leaving faint trails from its motion, so it must have been using propulsion. After watching the object for several minutes and trying to get my phone to get a picture of it and not having success, I called my husband to come outside and watch this thing too. His phone is new and has a better camera and his picture are much better then the ones I took. The object started to head directly east over the mountains and was too far for us to see, so I got binoculars and could see it again. It then started going north and suddenly did a quick descent behind the mountain and we could not see any longer.

Posted 2024-02-15