NUFORC Sighting 12053

Occurred: 2000-02-18 20:00 Local
Reported: 2000-02-18 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 4 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Prescott Valley, AZ, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object

We watched 2 fire like lights cross the sky from the northeast to the southwest in a synchroniced fashion.

At 8:00pm this evening, my wife and I were getting out of our car, on our way to dinner, when I noticed two strange lites in the sky. It was already quite dark out so they were very easy to see. They were heading strait for us coming from the northeast and heading southwest. They were moving quite slow, much slower than a small airplane and in a strange synchroniced formation. I would guess them to be between 5 and 10,000 ft. elevation. I continued to watch them for about four minutes while my wife went into the restaurant. They appeared to be flickering as if they were burning. I watched them till they were directly over head. By that time, a few people had past me woundering what I was doing and I told them I was watching some strange lites, they looked up and saw them also. The lites were about 5 times as bright as the north star and from where I stood, looked about 2ft apart. After watching them for a few minutes, I went into the restaurant and told my wife she should come back outside, that they were still there. By the time we got back outside, they had vanished. They had no colored lites and maded no sound. I'm a refrigeration and air conditioning tec and own a mobil food concession business as well. My wife teaches 6th grade and we have lived in the Prescott area for almost 4yrs. I've seen all different types of flares in my 44yrs, theese lites could not have been flare.

Posted 2000-02-23