Strange Object in the Sky ~ 8 PM MST Yesterday

i've seen 2 posts on other (non-woo) boards about this sighting


am now
curious............

What is it with New Mexico?


That clearly indicates it wasn't anything astronomical, but something in the atmosphere. (And not very high.)

How was this oval orientated? Pointing up, or sideways?

It was oval pointing strait up...but the stripe in the middle of it curved slightly northwards. The shape was more like an EGG with the bottom more rounded than the top.

It only lasted about 20 min total...but it did not move at all and what remained after sunset looked like several stars in tight formation

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NASA's secret space solar energy project ??

I HOPE !!


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sounds definitely like a starship disguised as a small group of stars.

Two other posters have said they've seen strange objects recently. One was in AZ, the other CA. I think it was around sunset with 4 lights that formed a rectangle and disappeared when the sun set. He was talking about asteroids, but I don't think so.

:ttwwp:

I've noticed when ppl start seeing things in the sky something earth shattering happens. meaning, earthquake in the near future.

no, the thread is not worthless without pics. grow up, be real, not everybody has a camera at the time, and not everybody lies or is crazy. i believe OP. i saw the moving star. it was a ufo, no pic, but there was another witness. so big deal, anyone out of the stone age knows ufo's are for real. congrats OP, it's wonderful to behold something bigger than the lyinass gov't and walmart.

that was you ls. geeze, you gotta know there are ufo's! i dint mean to get harsh on y9ou, i dint know it was you.

They are comets

Thread: Something strange during sunset in Arizona tonight

of course i know there are ufos! i have even reported one in my life. i was just saying that i want to see pictures.

i saw it too n i live in phx,az. i took my dog outside like around 7:40 n i randomly looked up at the sky and thats when i notice this white bright round object at first i also tought it was a star but i figured it couldnt cause stars are shining n no this object wasnt shining at all it was just bright it looked more like a planet it was round but small king of like the moon but the size of a penny or something. so i went inside my house to get my camera but when i went back outside to take a picture the thing wasent there anymore it just looked like regular stars...so idk what it was but i really would like to know what it actually was cause it looked freaky but cool at the same time.

My Husband and I saw it too...on the 8th - it never moved, even though it was extremely windy. Jusy sat in the exact same position for about 30 minutes, then cloud coverage blocked it out...

I'm in NW Arizona..........it was here last night. Everyone saw it. They say it is the NASA project in the paper.

that thread conclusions point more to UFOs than anything else.

no comets there, except for a few unsubstatiated claims of some uninformed posters.

what nasa project?

At least your not perpetrating the myth of "meteors" and other so called "space rocks"

probably a geosynch satellite that only catches the rays in high summer.
if it suddenly winked out 1/2 an hr after actual sunset this is a good bet.
and you should see it again tonight.

Here ya go.
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Bright Light Over Phoenix Is a Giant Balloon
By Robert Roy Britt, Editorial Director

posted: 12 June 2009 12:57 am ET

PHOENIX, AZ—In a near-repeat of an event last month, a high-altitude NASA-supported research balloon floated over Arizona Thursday afternoon, June 11. It was easily visible, to the north, from northern Phoenix.

And for those who didn't know what it was, it was oddly bright and suspiciously slow moving. (Already Thursday evening, as I was writing this, the local paper's web site was reporting sightings of something "really strange" and "freaky." An airport official called it a weather balloon. Yeah. A huge one.)

I happened to see both events, mostly because I drive a Jeep with no top and the balloons seem to pass over our state right when I'm shuttling my son to Tae Kwon Do. I sort of knew what the first one was. Actually, I figured that one was a weather balloon, whatever a weather balloon is, but I grossly underestimated its size. I learned later that these things are big as a football field and weigh as much as an SUV. They fly as high as 120,000 feet — well above jet airplanes and even above, and behind, the clouds.

This time I was relatively certain what I was seeing, given the experience of the last one. I pointed it out to my family and neighbors ("Really?! That's it?! Well, that's kind of boring," said the adults. "Cool," said the kids.) and proceeded to watch the balloon off and on from late afternoon until after sunset and snapped several photos with my Blackberry; the first pics, during daylight, frustratingly did not resolve the balloon, proving that smart phone cameras stink.

Meantime, a quick web search yielded an online tracking map from NASA and the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, which confirmed a balloon had been launched today and was floating over Prescott, Arizona during the time I was observing it.

The previous event in May prompted some to think a UFO was over the state, or at least something inexplicable (Phoenix is known for its UFO sightings).

So this time, I figured it would be useful to offer some observation notes on a very explicable event:

This balloon at first looked like a tiny gelatinous teardrop on the afternoon of June 11, 2009. It moved east-to-west, imperceptibly slowly. It seemed about the size of a faraway, floating birthday-party balloon, but seemingly much higher. My son said it was about half the size of an ant. It was silvery in the afternoon sun, then ducked in and out of the clouds near sunset, when its shape became more disc-like. Even after sunset, the balloon — flying so high — was brilliantly lit by the sun. It was far brighter than the planet Venus (the evening star, sometimes barely visible in daylight), but perhaps less bright than the full moon, though the reflected sunlight was more concentrated. If the moon is this fuzzy O, then the balloon was all the light of that O concentrated into this degree symbol: °.

And finally, after sunset, the contrast was greater and I got a really grainy photo from my Blackberry. It was far more dramatic to the naked eye, trust me.

the old giant balloon explanation, huh?

well i think the whole ballon stuff is bs. well if it was a NASA ballon was it that big that even in NM could of been seen for ppl over there? hum? idk really dont think that was what they say it was but oh well NASA will never tell us what really happens out there now are they ?