Light over Chandler/Gilbert, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
As I was hiking up a hill at Veterans Oasis Park, I noticed an ever-changing formation of lights that at first appeared to be aircraft taking off from Williams Gateway Airport. Initially, they appeared to be a squadron of jets with more seeming to lift off the earth joining the airborne collection. The lights were different sizes, but close together. Then, in 2 groups, they formed similar/identical formations: like the shape of 2 stars, or child's toy jacks; followed by a vertical double-helix-like formation, all the while, smaller lights appeared to coalesce into the bigger lights. within 1-2 minutes, all craft had been subsumed into the larger ones and all disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #156378). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Ask for the records
What would the paper say?
For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-05-06 → 2020-05-23
From the same sky