Flash over Peoria, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Quick moving ball of light in NW Phoenix Valley
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 2011-01-11 → 2011-01-28
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November 9, 2022 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
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I was standing outside smoking a cigarette when I saw the lights appear low on the horizon. There are no mountains there. The lights appeared one at a time until a row of 4 was formed. It did not move but it just hovered there for about 5 seconds and then faded away from the left to the right. It appeared again 5 minutes after the first appearance, doing the same thing it did the first time: red lights turning on one by one until 4 were seen and then they disappeared going left to right. The third time it occurred about 5 minutes later and the red lights were in a much different part of the sky, but when the lights came on they were not moving in the sky, just stationary. I few minutes later we saw jet crafts apparently scanning the area, going back and forth. I know Luke Air Force base is out in that direction so I thought they may have seen something in the sky as well and tried to send out keys to look for it. I had a witness with me for the red lights and another witness to see the jets surveying that area shortly after the appearances.
January 10, 2022 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Peoria, AZ
I was looking at 3 bright stars in a upside down "L" shape or loose triangle, when the lower star started moving to the North, I ran to get my wife, 3-4 seconds by then it had moved out of site, also the second star was gone, I have checked every night since and the 1 star is still in the same place or was for a few days. I am a retired Military Pilot, and have seen some odd things before, but this was a first
July 4, 2021 · 3:45 AM · TRIANGLE
Peoria, AZ
Standing outside on my patio at approx 3:45-3:50am I looked up to the south and saw 4 dim lights. 3 in the shape of a triangle and an extra off to the side tagging along. The tag along glided back and forth, east to west a couple times. The entire thing was traveling south to north. All lights were dim, no sound, traveling in a straight line, and very low in the sky.
June 8, 2021 · 7:00 PM · TEARDROP
Peoria, AZ
Saw A light brighter and larger than the iss at night in the western sky. Through binoculars was able to agree that it looked like an upside down teardrop. It appeared to be stationary but I’m the duration of time we watched it moved and shrunk to the size of a star; Before nightfall it disappeared completely.
April 4, 2021 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Peoria, AZ
I let my dog out in the backyard before putting her to bed. Shortly after sitting down in a chair on my patio, I noticed a light approaching that seemed quite a bit lower than the aircraft I’m used to seeing in the area, including military aircraft. In fact, within my same view, I could see two commercial aircraft with blinking lights. The craft in question had a solid white light and it wasn’t blinking at all. I’m estimating that the craft was approximately 7-10 thousand feet up and was approaching at a low speed. I watched it for at least 2-3 minutes. It seemed to be on a path that would bring it right over my house, which in near N Dysart Rd and W Jomax Rd. I started to feel like it was actually coming right towards me at one point. My dog then ran over by me and I called my grandson outside. We both stared at it for around 1 minute and commented how it was so low and that there was no noise. It slowly began to climb in altitude and within 5 seconds, it a! ccelerated upwards so fast that it went from a bright light to looking like a small star, and then totally disappeared. The whole sighting was so surreal that I unfortunately didn’t even think about filming it with my cell phone. I'll be ready when/if it happens again. Feel free to let me know if you have any further questions.