◆ PARALLAX

I don't know where to start. I'm still shaking. I was out on my patio in south Phoenix, just watering some plants, and I happened to look up. There's this -- object. Formation. I can't even describe it right. It's huge. HUGE. Blocking out the stars. Moving west to east, I think, or north to south, the whole state seems to be watching this thing. Silent. Absolutely silent. I've never heard of anything like this. I called my sister but she says the news doesn't have anything yet. It's been about twenty minutes since it passed over. Did anyone else see this?

PRESCOTT HERE. Saw it. Big lights. Shaped like a V or boomerang or something. Moving real slow. Took maybe 5-10 minutes to go across the sky. No sound at all. Scared the hell out of my wife. We don't know what we're looking at.

Tucson. 8:15pm. Entire family outside watching this thing move over the city. My husband said he could see it blotting out the stars. You could see the stars BEHIND it, which means -- I don't know what that means. But it's not a plane. No way that's a plane.

Lincolnshire here, I'm retired RAF, thirty years on radar in the trade. I'm following this Arizona story online. Let me ask the obvious question: did Luke Air Force Base see this on their scope? Phoenix is right there. If something two hundred miles long is moving over Arizona airspace at eight o'clock in the evening local time, it would light up every radar station from here to Kingdom Come. Has anyone asked the base? This is the single most important question.

Morning after. I've been trying to call the FAA. All lines busy. Local news is still not giving this much coverage. The local papers don't seem to know what to do with it. I've talked to five neighbors this morning and all of them saw something last night. Some of them saw the big formation like I did. One of them, old Mrs. Chen across the street, swears she saw smaller lights moving around AFTER the big one passed over, down toward the mountains south of here. I didn't see those. Does anyone have any information about what those might have been?

Chino Valley near Prescott. My father woke us kids up and made us come outside around 8:30pm. He was pointing at this massive thing in the sky. I'll never forget it. The bottom edge seemed to have lights on it, very bright, and the thing was moving so slowly and so silent it was like watching a nightmare. My father kept saying "What IS that?" He sounded terrified and I was too young to be more scared because he was scared. Whatever it was, it wasn't military. I know what the jets from Luke look like. This was different.

I'm MUFON-trained and I'm starting to collect reports. This is the largest sighting event I've ever documented, and we're only one day in. I want to organize the accounts by geographic location and time. If anyone has witnessed this event, please post the following information: (1) your location, (2) time of sighting, (3) direction the object was moving, (4) duration, (5) color and brightness of lights, (6) whether you heard any sound, (7) what you think you saw. I will compile these and we can cross-reference. The pattern is critical here.

Commercial pilot here, was driving on the I-10 near Tempe. I've flown for ten years. I know every aircraft in the world. That was not an aircraft. The way it moved, the formation of the lights, the total absence of sound or radio chatter. I almost crashed the car trying to watch it. I'm going to contact the FAA but I'm not sure they'll listen. I needed to say that here where people might understand what I'm talking about.