Sphere over Parker, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Once again above the desert here where i live, red orb like lights appeared, traveled the same exact path and vanished into thin air just like they appeared. This seems to be taking place on a regular basis, question is...what are they?
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #130623). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-10-10 → 2016-10-27
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December 2, 2021 · 7:30 PM · CIGAR
Parker, AZ
Every night this week a bright light has appeared in the sky by 7 p.m. and disappeared by 7:55 p.m. I originally thought this bright light was a planet at first appearance, but when it disappeared I question otherwise. Every night I went outside and this occurred between 11/29/21-12/2/21. Tonight, when I noticed that incredibly bright light disappear, I looked adjacent to where the light was and saw a cigar shaped light that I filmed for 7 seconds. It was there at least 10 seconds before I figured out how to use my camera and it disappeared as if it faded behind nonexistent clouds in the night sky. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
March 29, 2019 · 6:10 AM · DISK
Parker, AZ
I took photos and all I got was a vacant sky, the object would not show up on the photos. Weird. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 1, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Parker, AZ
Back in January or February you told George Noory on Coast about the sighting of the two orange lights with one white light in the middle that took off from the ground out by Wellton, AZ. I saw the same thing two orange lights with one white light in the middle along with the white Parker lights while I was camping east of town off of Shea Road. But instead of taking off from the ground these lights were up in the sky and to the left of the common white lights. I asked around but no one in town knows what those lights are and I looked on the internet but only found one article. One lady that works at the Indian gas station told me that she has seen them since she was a little girl and she is 21 now.
December 10, 2015 · 8:00 AM · LIGHT
Parker, AZ
In Arizona desert. No persons within miles. Awoke to bright object like reflecting sun rays seemingly stationary resting on a rock shelf several hundred feet away. Looked about 1 foot in size then began to move along ground. Then began to rise vertically. As it did it became larger and had shades of green. Into flight about 1 mile away, then disappeared. Saw it later on the ground moving around in different locations.
December 10, 2015 · 7:45 AM · RECTANGLE
Parker, AZ
I was driving at sunrise south on Highway 95 and had passed through Parker, Az. and was about 10 miles out of town southbound when I noticed 3 bright golden lights stationary to the east. I can only guess that they were probably 15 miles away and seemingly low, just a couple thousand feet up in the sky. The sun was still below the horizon, but was brightly coming up generally in the eastern direction of these objects and the golden color was as if the objects were metalic and reflecting the sunrise light, being vivid and bright. Right away it struck me that this looked odd. There were high thin obvious clouds to the east that stretched quite aways north to south, but they weren't thick enough to obscure some very distant jet traffic that could be seen a few times that would be consistent with jets leaving from the Phoenix airport. Those jets were very far off, barely discernible other than their contrail, but you could note they were going up from groun! d level and angling up to the north at typical angles and speeds for commercial jets to take off on. I didn't figure that the commercial jets were anywhere near these three objects, but much further away, and likely would not have seen them. While the far off jet traffic was playing out in the background, it emphasized the stationary manner and proximity of the three low and bright golden objects. The object that appeared to be closest to me, but not far from the other two objects that were slightly above and behind from my vantage point, appeared to be a long, thin rectangle of golden light with the long flat side being parallel to the ground as if level to it. The rectangle wasn't very tall relative to it's length and would be like this symbol --- proportionally. The other two objects were in a somewhat tight grouping with the rectagle, but were further away and I could not see any shape in that they were just bright golden circles, difficult to focus on for any detail. I was on vacation and carrying a camera in my car and knew that I should get a photo of these. There wasn't a very good place to pull over at first, but I knew there was gonna be a stop in a mile or so where State Highway 72 meets Highway 95 and I intended to stop there and do a photograph, but I was also anticipating that when I got on Hwy 72 I would be heading directly towards these objects and that if they remained in place for another 10 minutes of driving time I'd probably be getting pretty close under them for a closer view. When I came around the bend of the road where the highways meet and I'd intended to take a photograph, I was surprised to see an Az. State Trooper pulled across my lane, blocking it with a few orange cones out at the Highway 72 intersection. It could have been because of an accident down the road, and in retrospect I probably should have asked him, but as I drove up to ask him if indeed that road was closed he was seemingly perturbed because I had driven up to his vehicle and not just turning down the alternative highway. (95 toward Quartzsite). I didn't ask him about the lights that I'm sure he could have seen from his vantage point. I had to do a kinda funny maneuver then to get on to 95 southbound then and hoped he wouldn't give me a ticket, but he probably couldn't leave his post. As soon as I was on that other road a ridge started rising up and within a minute cut off my view of those objects so I never got a photo. Had I been able to get on that Hwy 72 the next town in about 10 miles is called Bouse, and I think that those objects were just a bit north of the highway and not far from Bouse. I observed these stationary objects for about 10 minutes and I never saw any movement. I looked at your site to see if there were any other collaborative report and see that someone saw something moving on the ground in the same general area at about the same time, so I decided to also report what I saw.
February 13, 2014 · 7:07 PM · LIGHT
Parker, AZ
Large bright orb near the Colorado River