Changing over Mesa, AZ

The report, as filed

As I sat in my computer room doing research, guns went off I of course ignored them. About three minutes later my mom came running in the house telling me to go outside. My neighbors across the way said there were 30 lights over their house which moved in the direction of NE from Sky Harbor airport, from the location of my house the lights were NW. I am a amateur deep space astrophotographer, so I definitely can identify any normal aircraft or lights in the sky when I see them. By the time I got outside there were 20 lights. I did not want to move for fear I might miss something. I ran to grab my Canon rebel T3i with the telephoto lens. When I went outside my hands and body were so shaky, I guess that is why spare of the moment photographs of UFO's are not clear. My neighbor however got a video. While all this was going on the lights dropped down to ten, still ascending NW. At this point my dog in the house was going crazy. Once the lights got to about 7 or 8 they began to make a triangle formation. It looked like a triangle with one flat side parallel to the ground with the top tip point bent forward while it all rotated on a lazy-susan. When any of the lights began to disappear they would blink in and out then slowly fade into a dim disappearance. The video shows three lights stationary while a helicopter goes across ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1OLecTpZy4 . One of my neighbors who witnessed the UFO's is a aircraft mechanic, he could not identify any aircraft that he knows to make such formations or behave in such a way. The lights traveled NE and disappeared; both away from sky harbor and my house.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #110179). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.