Formation over Glendale, AZ
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The report, as filed
Witnessed seven large circular lights moving eastward very slowly over the sky at Utopia & 68th Ave in Glendale, AZ, approximately 9:20 PM (AZ time zone) on the night of Saturday, November 4th, 2017. We the lights them for approximately a 45-second duration before they disappeared. Could easily tell they were not airplanes- there was no noise and they did not look like airplanes that flew by in same spot after they disappeared. We live under a flight path, so definitely would know if lights were from airplanes. These were not airplanes! They seemed to make somewhat of a V formation. We took two photos and one short video that caught they tail end of the sighting. Only 3 to 4 lights appear in the photos but visible to our eyes there were approximately seven. The light pattern moved slowly, silently, and lights were all in unison with each other as if belonging to one large flying or several that were somehow traveling in a geometric formation at the same speed and altitude. The formation appeared similar to a V, but was not a perfect V showing all the points.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137127). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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