Orange orb UFO moves over Arizona town

August 14, 8:24 PMUFO ExaminerRoger Marsh

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Arial view of Maricopa, Arizona. Wikipedia image.

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The UFO Traffic Report for Friday, August 14, 2009, includes 8 selected sightings over 7 states, according to witness statements filed in the past 48 hours with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.

Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade. If MUFON investigates and reports back on any of these cases, I will update this page. The following reports and their headlines are unedited. You can read my selected cases by type of UFO report at the UFO Traffic Report index page.

AZ, August 13, 2009 - Large, stationary red/orange ball of light seen hovering around outskirts of Maricopa town. MUFON Case # 18667.

An Arizona witness driving south on Highway 347 near Maricopa, "noticed a large, bright red/orange orb of light hovering above the town, to the south west."

The witness pulled over and noticed that the object was stationary, and then decided to drive into town and toward the location of the light. The witness located the object again and was "stopped just a little west of the intersection of 238, Green Road, and W. Smith Enke Road, with the light appearing just to the south west, approximately at W McDavid Road and White Road. Then the light disappeared. The witness then continued to drive to locate the object and noticed "in the direction of where the light had been, and I saw on the ground something that looked like a portion, or top, of the red/orange light--only it appeared to be mostly BELOW ground level and surrounded by many, smaller white lights. They were not blinking, but there were many of them, spanning a very large distance."

The next day the witness went to the same location, did not see anything unusual, but did notice "it's very possible the many white lights I saw last night were from the Dairy. But what the heck was that huge red light?"

ID, August 13, 2009 - multi color lights looks pure in color almost like plasma. MUFON Case # 18664.

An Idaho witness woke up his wife at 2 a.m. to look at a light in the sky that was "very plasma like in nature" and described as a "welding light but much more colorful." The couple said the object was "darting around in weird movements almost like it was trying to spell out something or signal type movement."They said the light being emitted "was so intense you couldnt always make a form."The man's wife also noticed "other much lighter colored objects" that were "doing fly bys at increasing speeds and could be seen flying out of atmosphere in different directions" over a 45-minute period.

AZ, August 13, 2009 - Two, large, bright, yellowish brown lights close together, one slightly to the right, and above the other. MUFON Case # 18658.

An Arizona witness northbound on I-10 coming in from Tucson noticed "two bright yellow/orange lights in the sky to my left (that would be looking west)."

Photo: Witness image was cropped and enlarged for this page. MUFON database.

The lights would "linger" for a while and then disappear, and then reappear again. The witness pulled over four different times to shoot both video and digital still pictures of the objects, but then became scared and drove home.

MA, March 15, 2009 - Lozenge-shaped grey 500 ft high slow speed, straight trajectory. MUFON Case # 18652.

A Massachusetts pilot saw a "lozenge-shaped object, dull grey in color, moving north to south in a straight trajectory.The object rotated clockwise at approximately 6 rpm, was dull grey, "maintained altitude, direction, speed, and rotation so precisely that I question if it was a balloon of any type. It did not follow surface wind direction, but I did not know the winds aloft at that time. There were no surface features or lights visible. The surface seemed very smooth, and the dimentions of the object were approximately 5' x 2' and shaped very much like a oblong cough lozenge." The observation was three minutes.

OH, August 12, 2009 - Triangle of lights. MUFON Case # 18651.

An Ohio couple out watching the recent meteor shower saw an "almost shrouded configuration of three dull amber/brownish lights in the north east sky, and they seemed to be pretty low in altitude. It resembled the effect of some one shining three muted lights in a triangular pattern on a low and overcast sky." They ran into the middle of the street for a better view and "watched the triangular pattern steadily move from east to west to finally be obscurred by a large tree in our yard."

IL, April 12, 2009 - Triangular UFO with 4 dim, non-flashing lights traveling from N to S; no noise. MUFON Case # 18635.

An Illinois couple out watching a meteor shower and looking toward Cassiopeia noticed something moving in the sky almost overhead. The object was "triangular in shape and moved very smoothly with no noise. It did not change directions. There were 4 dim, non-flashing lights on the bottom of it; one in each corner of the triangle and one in the middle. The lights illuminated enough of the bottom to make out the shape. It seemed very low in the sky to me."

SC, August 11, 2009 - 2 objects, largest one w/ rotating lights. MUFON Case # 18633.

A South Carolina witness saw what at first appeared to be a twinkling star. As the object came closer, the witness "could see that the lights were actually rotating around the object. The lights were red, green, blue, yellow and white. The object never got close enough to make out an actual shape, but from the way the lights rotated it appeared to be round at the edges. At that point it stopped briefly, but after a few seconds it began to go back in the direction it had just came from." A second, smaller object was also spotted.

PA, July 14, 2009 - UFO spotted first by me , then hours later by my kids. MUFON Case # 18631.

A Pennsylvania woman visiting her mother in Everson was out for a walk when she noticed a "triangular object that was not twinkling like a star would." She said that she watched the object for 20 minutes and that it did not move nor twinkle like a star. She went back inside, but decided not to tell her two teenage children. A couple of hours later, the teenagers came down stairs and reported they were waching a UFO from an upstairs window. The group went outside to see the object again.