Circle over Litchfield park, AZ

The report, as filed

Observed a circular shaped object rotating green,blue,red,orange and white lights. On a relative heading of 270 at very high altitude. My father pointed it out to my wife and I we went out back to look. She is a trained USAF meteorologist as I am myself from my time in the USMC. I’ve also been a pilot for 7 years. I have never seen anything like this before. It was stationary and not moving as I observed a star in the background to use as reference to its position. I used a 60x spotting scope and it’s colors were vibrant and rotating. It stayed bright and in one spot for 20 minutes then started to slowly fade into the distance. Eventually becomes a bright ball of orange as it faded. Went back outside at 2150 and the object was completely gone. If I had to guess off my years of flying/meteorological experience I’d put the craft at a altitude of roughly 40 to 50k feet. The only way to describe to colors was like a rotating Christmas tree of colors but was very! much shaped like a ball possibly disk.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #164596). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.