Other over Tonto Basin, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Thought it was a rocket launch. Not real clear but shape of plane, with orange looking flames on top. By time got camera was just an orange ball. When you zoom in looks like redish crystal
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #173940). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-01-10 → 2023-01-27
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October 23, 2022 · 12:27 PM · OTHER
Tonto Basin, AZ
I was taking a picture of the cloud formations over my town, and when I got home and examined the photo at near-pixel level, I noticed this strange object. At extreme close-up in my paint program, I just couldn't make out what it was. Just looking close-up at the nearby cloud it's under.. it didn't quite look like a jet - this area does get a lot of ground-based aircraft fly-overs. As such, I cannot verify what this object is using just basic home-computer software. I'm hoping someone(s) can better clarify its image. Since to me it doesn't look like a jet, etc. I wanted to submit this photo I took with my Samsung A21 phone's camera. It doesn't appear to me to be bad pixels, but I'm not sure.. From the distance I was from the object, I didn't notice it until I zoomed in on the photo. I didn't enhance the photo in any way.. and just placed a yellow box around the suspected object to help you know where to find it. It is in JPG format, which I downloaded to my PC.
May 24, 2019 · 11:45 PM · RECTANGLE
Tonto Basin, AZ
My husband and I stopped at the campground, and stopped to look at the water. There were also people loading their boat at the boat ramp. The sky was clear, and we observed many stars. As we were looking up at the sky, it changed. A big black space (about 4 football fields long) covered the stars and was replaced by one rectangular object. On the left side there was a rectangle with lights in a square shape, and then to the right of it, a row of smaller lights in a horizontal straight line. The smaller lights looked like the shape of a tic-tac. We watched this craft for about 4-5 minutes and tried to film it, but my camera only caught blackness. It disappeared the same way, the sky turned black once again in the space where it was. We watched for a few more minutes while the stars came back into the spot.