UFO Fireball Gives Arizona News Team the Jitters (Video)

www.news.gather.com ^ | April 18, 2012 07:10 AM EDT | Tom Rose

[Carriage Hill]

A UFO, not behaving like a meteor, streaked across the skies of Arizona, causing many to call police. And for a local news team to head out of the studio to investigate. What was it?

In a sign that mainstream media is beginning to pay serious attention to the unidentified flying object phenomenon, local Arizona TV news affiliate ABC15 did a two-minute news segment on the fireball which was reportedly streaking across the sky as the newscast aired live.

Witness photographs and videos were shown on-screen, and this one, showing an irregular flight path of the object, was broadcast. The news team speculated over what the object could be, even calling it a UFO at one point. A camera crew was sent out to the field to catch video of the object and they were successful.

[ArrogantBustard]

The bug guy deserves a Oscar for protraying an 8 legged critter trying to fit inside an “Elmer Suit.”

That was Vincent D'Onofrio ... also "Private Pyle" in Full Metal Jacket and "Detective Goren" in Law & Order: Criminal Intent ... among many others. Very talented actor.

[Finny]

Thanks for the ping, Quix!

[ArrogantBustard]

The trick, as always, is not to let your conclusions run ahead of your data ... and to distinguish data from bogosity.

[Carriage Hill]

Thanks for the advice; I will do that next time, Q.

[Candor7]

Arizona has an an amazing number of events.

If you go to YouTube, and search [UFO Arizona], dozens of them come up.Many witnessed by thousands of people at the same time. The Phoenix Lights are the most infamous.

Maybe we will get to know whats really happening soon?

[Carriage Hill]

Thanks for the review; I’ll get them rented for the weekend.

[Carriage Hill]

That’s exactly how I look at it all, now that I’ve *seen things* which I can’t explain away as swamp gas belches or lost balloons or whatever.

[Errant]

Fortunately or otherwise, I’m rarely able to conclude anything... LOL

[The Cajun]

I used to love poking fun at the “crazies” til I saw several things I can’t explain. Now I am one of the crazies and I ain’t poking fun or telling anyone anything.

Been there, done that.
Amazing what seeing a ball of light do something very screwy and very, very fast in the sky will do to your attitude about things :^)

[Bernard Marx]

This reminds me of the (formerly) well -known green fireballs that appeared mainly over New Mexico during the late 40's and early 50's. I witnessed the moon-sized 1954 fireball along with thousands of other people. It was bright green and traveled parallel with the horizon at what appeared to be a leisurely speed. One of the things was seen as late as 2007.

I don't believe the green fireballs came from outer space but they were "real" UFOs -- *unidentified* flying objects. Nobody seems to have a provable theory about what caused them but there's been endless speculation. Google "green fireballs New Mexico" or read the Wiki summary here: GREEN FIREBALLS

[Bernard Marx]

What was spooky was that it was making absolutely no sound that I could detect.

Your description is almost identical with a craft my wife saw near San Luis Obispo, CA: lots of lights, fairly low altitude and absolutely silent. One more really odd thing: it seemed capable of making right-angle, not curved, course changes. She said it appeared to be V-shaped. That part of CA isn't too many flight miles from Area 51 and we've always figured it was a military test of some kind.

[Errant]

Yeah, this craft appeared to be V-shaped but really hard to say since all I could really see were the lights. I saw it inside a MOA, in straight and level flight, passed overhead, appeared huge, no sound, no idea its actual altitude or speed (though likely less than 200 knots) as seen from the ground about 10 years ago.

I guess it could have been more than one craft or maybe a group of special force guys in formation using some kind of quiet para-sails or something.

[Interesting Times]

Brain-dead local ABC anchor dweeb, “A lot of people said this was moving horizonally, which might rule out a meteor.”

[aces]

Uh, was it visible to military radar? if not they would not show up, and if the military was scrambled and it really was a ufo they saw, do we think we could do anything to it?

pleeeeease...

[Segovia]

My S.A.C., who was coincidentally a retired Air Force colonel and SAC commander once chased one across four states. I noticed Venus in the night sky last night though, it seemed unusually bright and large.

[Carriage Hill]

Thanks; very, very interesting info, BM.

[stockpirate]

I looked for a link before I posted, it was in the washington post.......there are many such stories, like the UFO over UK that was larger then an ircraft carrier that when jets went to fire on them the jets shut down....

[stockpirate]

I looked for a link before I posted, it was in the washington post.......there are many such stories, like the UFO over UK that was larger then an aircraft carrier that when jets went to fire on them the jets shut down....

[unkus]

Thanks for the info.

Look out...you’ll be called a kook pretty soon. Some FReepers don’t believe in some things.