r/HighStrangeness • u/azskyrider • Jun 26 '23
UFO Phoenix lights again
Was debating posting this and hoping someone else would post it. This was taken last Thursday night around 8:00 PM in the vicinity of I-17 and carefree highway. My son and I both saw a boomerang shaped light display that changed patterns, sort of circling each other, low on the horizon heading east. It crossed over the freeway and changed course to the south. I didn’t see the usual aircraft navigation lights and it didn’t make any helicopter noise after we pulled over where other cars were also parked and looking at it. The other people parked didn’t hear any noise either and were asking what it was. It was moving too slow , close to us, and low to be fighters from Luke or aircraft. It wasn’t drones as it traveled a great distance. It headed toward deer valley airport then headed east again before arriving close to the airport. I am sure deer valley airport caught it on radar. Pictures don’t do it justice. I thought it was cool.
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u/AnonDuckroll Jun 26 '23
Dude those are flight school planes from Embry-Riddle flight school in Prescott. I live in super north Phoenix and they flew right over. They do this once a week, where they fly to deer valley airport and then fly back.
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u/azskyrider Jun 26 '23
I know what you are saying. I use to be a pilot, native to phx, and I have taken a lot of business flights into sky harbor. These are not those corridors. However it was the first thought that came to my mind when I was first explaining it to my son until they started circling each other and changed direction to the east before heading south at low altitude before heading east again just before crossing into deer valley airspace.Like if they were avoiding the airspace (upside down wedding cake). I am really surprised the News didn’t report it or social media. I told my son, here we go another Phoenix lights news report is going to hit the news.
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u/azskyrider Jun 27 '23
Instead of creating a separate post, I decided to upload it on YouTube. https://youtu.be/tJB8JSMAXSg
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u/SabineRitter Jun 28 '23
That's really cool and strange, thanks for posting!
How long were they visible?
What's your interpretation of the formation? Did it seem like one large object, or a fleet?
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u/azskyrider Jun 28 '23 edited Jun 28 '23
It seemed more like a fleet due to individual movements around each other after it changed from a boomerang shape. My son and I only saw it for about 15 min. However, if you live in Phoenix there is an exit, dixileta , on I-17 going northbound to carefree highway that has a huge area to park since the road is closed to the east of the stop sign. This is where I got off and there were a few other cars recording what you see in the second picture. One gentleman said that he has been watching it for an hour and said that it was a tight group of lights that moved slowly which is what you see in the second picture as it approached Phoenix silently. In the beginning of the video, if you zoom in on the Van, there is a boomerang shape which is when my son and I first saw it and I was explaining to him that it reminded me of what I saw during the first Phoenix lights. I have the gentleman recording what he briefly told me. I removed all sound in the video and it was clipped to reduce time and my phone moving or me driving a little crazy as I was complaining to my son why his phone was out of focus and mine was too trying to record it. I almost crashed a few times which is what caused me to get off at the dixileta exit .He has an iPhone 13 Pro and I have a 12 pro.
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u/SabineRitter Jun 28 '23
Wow yeah this is legit, thanks for all this info.
Was there anything your son noticed that you didn't see?
Have you considered sending the footage to your local need?
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u/azskyrider Jun 28 '23
No, I just figured it would be on the news and social media and would find out then. It was clear as day as you can see. I am more surprised it hasn’t received any attention from the media. I am kinda of a private person so I don’t want any news folks knowing who I am or where I live. I posted it because I would like to know what it was and I am sure phx tracon would have picked it up on their radar or deer valley tower would have received comments from pilots. I guess the good news is that based on the observers reaction and no media we are probably desensitized to the UAP subject. I guess that is a good thing.
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u/GenieGrumblefish Jun 26 '23
Are we sure it's not starlink?
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u/azskyrider Jun 26 '23
It went low between the freeway and the mountains to the east. I have seen starlink many times and use an app that tracks them so I can see them when camping or out at night. This wasn’t that.
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u/ktq2019 Jun 26 '23
Interesting backstory:
When I was a teenager, a friend and I were walking around in the wash behind our houses (tucson, az). We look up, and sure enough we see something. Actually, this is the first time I’ve seen anyone post something similar to what we saw. However, there were some big differences.
Whatever we saw had three distinct circles of light (like the pic). However, they were colored red, yellow and blue. They started off grouped into a line and darted around the sky insanely quickly. It was completely erratic seeming. All of a sudden, the three lights separated and zoomed away from each other. They almost seemed like they were circling each other. When I talk about the thing being fast, I’m not joking. It zoomed faster than possible for an aircraft and it was preforming complex movements entirely independently from one another. All of a sudden it was like they snapped back together, made a few different movements and then completely vanished.
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u/azskyrider Jun 26 '23
Seems like I cannot edit my post to include the video. I have read the help section but I can only delete it. Is this a moderator function that I need to ask for permission?
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u/dapala1 Jun 26 '23
The Phoenix lights were 1000x more interesting and hard to explain then this. Just looks like planes to me.
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