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Sphere over Phoenix, AZ

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

On 1/29/2022 I was getting cash at an ATM at the corner of 7th st and Glendale in Phoenix AZ at about 9:00pm. When I finished I was about to make a right turn onto Glendale when I saw these four glowing orbs/lights in the sky. I was looking towards the north and I would estimate they were at about a 27 degree angle above the northern horizon (roughly a quarter of the way up from the horizon). I got my phone out and recorded for one minute and 32 seconds. At the start of the video (0:00) the orbs are visible and they slowly move almost in tandem towards my vantage point. At (0:16) I attempt to zoom in and see what the lights are. The zoom proved to be quiet out of focus so I went back to being zoomed out (0:21). For the next several seconds the lights continued coming closer but now seem to be slightly out of sync in their movements. At (0:29) the second closest light seems to begin to dim and slowly goes out/disappears. By (0:35) that light is no longer visible. By (0:38) the closest light also goes out. The remaining lights come quite close to each other and seem to go partially around each other and then begin to separate. Again at (0:56) I tried to zoom into the lights and zoom back out at (0:59) at which point the light on the left begins to twinkle and disappear/go out. At (1:12) it becomes harder to see the last remaining light. Once I could no longer see the lights I stopped recording and pulled out of the bank and was traveling east on Glendale when I saw another such light move across the sky. I was not able to get that one on video because I was already driving on a busy street and could not stop to record. Any input onto what it was that I saw would be most helpful. I must say that this was a very strange experience. A few other points that may be helpful. At the start of the video (0:00) you can see a helicopter cross the lower sky from left to right until is cannot be seen (0:10). Also there are some glares that get in the video at some points but those are pretty self explanatory. Here is the video which shows the whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OyXjzQGDpo

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166542). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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