NUFORC Sighting 63098

Occurred: 2008-05-11 20:00 Local
Reported: 2008-05-11 21:59 Pacific
Duration: 1 Hour & Counting...
No of observers: 2

Location: Tucson, AZ, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

A fast traveling object that covered great (irregular) distances while blinking multiple colors extremely fast.

My girlfriend and I were driving home from a SubWay restaurant when I saw what appeared to be a malfunctioning airplane. It’s hard to stress in words how distinctly different from an airplane this was, and when I saw it my mouth dropped and I immediately pulled over to the side of the road. I live at the base of a mountain (the outskirts of the city) and was heading north-east when I saw it. After I pulled over to the side of the road and I pointed out what I saw to my girlfriend and she became as awed as I was.

Now that I had stopped moving I was able to properly asses what I was looking at. It was a ball of light about four times as big as a star but smaller than an airplane light that was blinking/flashing multiple colors (I’m talking almost every color imaginable) about 10 times per every 1 time that an airplanes light blinks. Basically, if an airplane blinks 2 times a second, this object was blinking about 20-30 times a second in alternating colors like red, blue, green, purple…etc in a hard to catch order (if any). However, that wasn’t the half of it… Its one thing to see colorful flashing (strobe-light like) light, but it’s another to see this object’s crazy movement in the sky. It came from the north-east heading north-west in an irregular, non-linear path that consisted of circles and zigzags with behaviors similar to that of a firefly. It was moving nothing like an airplane/satellite/whatever, and occasionally consisted of dives that dropped the object hundreds of feet in order to regain its altitude only seconds later. At this point I was freaked out enough and decided to call the police for help… I called 911, who forwarded me to the Local Police department where they took my information and told me to keep my eye on the object. I continued to watch the object in its irregular path towards the west when it suddenly seemed to stop in one location for about 10 minutes! It seemed to stay in the same vicinity but make loops, dives and etc, all covering great distances in very short periods of time. Wanting to contact a UFO hotline, I got into my car and drove the remainder of the distance home.

When I got home I did a quick search to get to www.nuforc.org and call the hotline support. I talked to someone for a good 5-10 mins about the object I could now barely see in the distance. He told me to call up friends closer to the object (that was now far west) to see if they could spot the object as well. As he was telling me this I noticed a helicopter flying over my neighborhood (with a spotlight) at the intersection I had told the police that I had witnessed the object (I don’t know if that was a coincidence or what).

I later drove back to the original place I had seem the object, where I called my friends on the other side of town. They all couldn’t see the object because they lived more into the city and had a harder time seeing stars (because of the many lights) let alone a weird blinking thing. I eventually drove home and filled out this report as the man on the hotline had told me to do.



Posted 2008-06-12

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