Fireball over Scottsdale, AZ
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The report, as filed
Two Orbs Seen Over Scottsdale
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2002-10-29 → 2002-11-15
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December 10, 2023 · 5:14 PM · CIRCLE
Scottsdale, AZ
Single Reflective and black object. possibly flapping wings but unsure how it could explain change in color. Circling at random, high altitude. have a 41 second video, but cant submit it on file [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]
May 5, 2023 · 9:27 AM · DISK
Scottsdale, AZ
My partner, my mother in law and I were headed south on the 101 Freeway to go to a family wedding in Gilbert. My partner, who was driving, noticed two disc shaped metallic crafts moving back and forth quickly and disappearing and then reappearing. My Mother in law and I spotted them too. I then took my phone out to record them. They eventually disappeared and we lost track of them so aren’t sure if they reappeared. These were not aircraft, as they would quickly move right and then to the left and back and forth. The sky seemed a bit hazy, though it was sunny. We have no explanation but wanted to share the sighting.
April 7, 2023 · 6:35 PM · UNKNOWN
Scottsdale, AZ
It looked segmented, very flashy at the top, as it randomly had the sun flashing off of it. 2 segments aligned vertically, possibly connected by a piece not visible to the eye or camera. It didn't strike us as a balloon, since the top looked solid, and sometimes the top looked round, others it looked elongated like the bottom segment. Highly reflective. There were planes around, though they didn't appear to have any interest in this object. It coasted along slowly, apparently really high in the sky - but still below the clouds, as it was visible even when overlapping with the clouds themselves. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
March 3, 2023 · 6:05 PM · RECTANGLE
Scottsdale, AZ
@zDrxgon for proof. Follow and DM and i'll send 1 minute 28 second video on top of my tweets. Not moving, metallic flash in sky . Further above planes. Not a star
March 2, 2023 · 7:29 PM · SPHERE
Scottsdale, AZ
Lights started with 2. When videoing with my Apple 11 cell phone, the video immediately shows them power up? Then the one on the bottom left dissolved and there was only one. Then at about 38 seconds it seemed to power up again. Towards the end at about 53 seconds the light/sphere took a very sharp/fast downward turn. I ran into house to get my landlord and within 2 minutes it was not there when we came back outside. Other video shows a little bit of color change from very light pale green to pink to yellow to white again..
November 16, 2022 · 1:32 PM · CIGAR
Scottsdale, AZ
I was driving along mountain view and via Linda when I noticed something really reflective and shiny in the sky. It was very odd and out of place to see, especially considering it was the middle of the day when the sun was out and at its hottest/brightest. It looked like a cigar-shaped, bright silver object that just floated in the sky, completely motionless. I couldn't hear any noise coming from it either, like you typically do when you see a plane or drone. Then when I glanced down at my phone for maybe 2 seconds to see the picture that I posted here, when I looked back up it was just completely gone. Any type of man made aircraft would have slowly moved out of sight until it was too far away to see and it wouldn't have just completely disappeared in 2 seconds from that distance. I have actually seen something like this before, about a year ago, with other people who witnessed it too. It had the exact same physical characteristics and was also silent and motionless in the sky for seconds until it just completely disappeared. I don't have pictures of that experience but it looked almost identical.