12/6/2006: Maricopa, AZ, USA

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Occurred : 12/6/2006 20:00 (Entered as : 12/06/06 20:00) Reported: 12/6/2006 7:35:00 PM 19:35 Posted: 12/7/2006 Location: Maricopa, AZ Shape: Triangle Duration: 25 minutes Characteristics: There were lights on the object
Orange lights in the sky I was driving home through the Gila River Indian Reservation (on the southern edge of the Phoenix metro area), when I noticed several dark orange, bright circular lights in the sky (like the color of street lights). I drove through Maricopa until I was in open land again, and could see a total of four lights about 5 miles to the southwest, several thousand feet up. There were three lights in a straight line, and a fourth light a little ways off, making an elongated isosceles triangle. The lights would randomly flicker on and off - sometimes off for 30 seconds and then flicker on in the same location). I watched for a couple minutes - the total duration from when I first saw them until they totally flickered off was about 20-25 minutes. I turned around to head home, and as I was driving back in my subdivision, I could see the one light again at the top of the triangle (maybe 10 minutes after I left). The whole thing was stationary, and didn't move. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly flares over the Gila Bend Firing Range?? PD))

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 12/6/2006 20:00 (Entered as : 12/06/06 20:00)
Reported: 12/6/2006 7:35:00 PM 19:35
Posted: 12/7/2006
Location: Maricopa, AZ
Shape: Triangle
Duration: 25 minutes
Characteristics: There were lights on the object

Orange lights in the sky

I was driving home through the Gila River Indian Reservation (on the southern edge of the Phoenix metro area), when I noticed several dark orange, bright circular lights in the sky (like the color of street lights).

I drove through Maricopa until I was in open land again, and could see a total of four lights about 5 miles to the southwest, several thousand feet up. There were three lights in a straight line, and a fourth light a little ways off, making an elongated isosceles triangle.

The lights would randomly flicker on and off - sometimes off for 30 seconds and then flicker on in the same location). I watched for a couple minutes - the total duration from when I first saw them until they totally flickered off was about 20-25 minutes.

I turned around to head home, and as I was driving back in my subdivision, I could see the one light again at the top of the triangle (maybe 10 minutes after I left).

The whole thing was stationary, and didn't move.

((NUFORC Note: Possibly flares over the Gila Bend Firing Range?? PD))