Mysterious lights hovering over the valley east of Mesa, Arizona, make residents wonder if they had a close encounter.
D.J. Maier and Kerri Burnett describe what they saw:
It started moving kind of diagonal across, I was trying to figure out which way it was heading, and that’s when we noticed it started dropping things from it.
The couple say they saw the phenomenon outside their home in Mesa on Sunday around 9 pm.
They say the object seemed to come from the southeast.
Burnett said:
Began to move diagonally, I was trying to figure out where it was going, and that’s when we realized that it started dropping things from it.
The object captured on two cell phones looks like a bright orb hovering silently in the sky. Every few moments, the object appears to drop what looks to be flares towards the ground
Maier said:
And it wasn’t just us, our neighbors next door they were out, they weren’t even filming. They were more in amazement, like statues, just watching it.
And it wasn’t just us, our neighbors next door they were out, they weren’t even filming. They were more in amazement, like statues, just watching it.
Maier said:
Some said it may be an aircraft, others said aliens or a comet.
The whole event dates back to 1997 and the mysterious phenomenon known as The Phoenix Lights – a mystery that remains debated today.
The ABC15 channel team contacted several aviation experts who theorized that the lights seen on Sunday could be from parachute flares used by the military or even helicopters or other aircraft dropping flares during training.
In fact, the Outlaw Military Operations Area sits not far from where the video was shot. But video found online of those types of exercises just doesn’t seem to match.
Meier said:
There were no navigation lights. Even the military has to have navigation lights on. That’s an FAA rule.
ABC15 contacted the Federal Aviation Administration, Luke Air Force Base, and the Army National Guard, but no one knew for sure what it was.
This leaves the answer to what was captured on camera for anyone.
Maier also said:
I know what I saw, and I don’t think it was from here, and I think it was definitely something else.
