Large Triangle Seen in Arizona, 10-20-08
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S Higley Rd & E Elliot Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85234

It's on the southeast corner of the crossroads where the building is and houses are now where the dirt is.

1) Make a note of the exact date and time you saw the object. Write down any and everything you saw. Make a drawing if possible. At approximately 9:50 PM +/- 5 mins, I was driving north on Higley because I was on my way home from college. About a mile and a half away from home I could see extremely bright lights over the area in the direction of my home. At first I thought they were helicopters and I wondered what was happening.

As I got closer, just under a mile away, I could see that there were 3 bright lights over the area of my home in the same square mile. I noticed the lights were moving so I thought that the story was over. The light began to head south toward me. On the southwest corner of Higley and Elliot is a like a strip mall type place and there is a Basha's (a large grocery store).

The lights were right over Basha's about maybe 300 feet above them. I'm not really sure, but the thing was close and gigantic. I was in the lane closest to the Basha's. I kept looking at the thing, but the 3 lights were too bright and I couldn't see too much until I was on the side of it. That's when I noticed that it was a large triangle and the three lights were at the points of the triangle. they seemed to be pointed slightly forward as opposed to straight down.

There was also 1 red flashing light on the side closest to me. It seemed to be flying straight in the direction of the point heading south. On the two sides, I could briefly see the other side of the triangle when I was closer to the front (that's the real point when I noticed it was a triangle because there was a bar of light connecting the two lights on the back to the one on the front facing south. The bars were light bright, but not as bright as the big three lights on the point. The side closest to me also had a blinking red light, which made me think it was a plane, but there was only 1 red light and it was off center of the triangle and pretty much on the underside of the edge facing me.

It was between the light in the back on that side and the one facing south. When I was passing I was going about 40-45 miles an hour. The bar of light on the side closest to me lit up in a small section in the back brighter than the light already coming off of it and quickly moved to the front side and ended and when back to normal brightness when it reached the front round light at the tip of the triangle facing south. It took about 6-7 seconds to pass over the Basha's and it began to turn southeast (the tip turned that way and the object began to move that way as well).

I wasn't paying too much attention to the road so I looked back in front of me and turned into the next entrance into the Basha's. I drove to the southern most part of the parking lot, but when I looked in the direction it went it, it seemed to have disappeared. I looked for 5 minutes then I quickly went across the street to my home. I live pretty much on the northeast corner of Higley and Elliot in Gilbert, Arizona.

2) List all witnesses' names, addresses, and phone numbers. Provide ages and occupations when possible.

Some cars like me driving by slowly. Only about 4 to 6 cars were on the street 1 driving south, 2 at the light of Higley and Elliot. 1 further ahead than me approaching the light going north on Higley. 1 small car two lanes in next to me driving in the same direction.

3) Give your exact location at the time of the sighting. Street address, city, state, country.

Crossroads of Higley and Elliot in Gilbert, Arizona 85234 4) Describe the weather. Was it sunny? Overcast? Raining? A clear night? Full moon?

Clear night. I didn't notice the moon. October 20, 2008

5) In what part of the sky was the UFO located? North, South, East, West? On the horizon or straight overhead or somewhere in between?

The Basha's is about 100 yards away from the road and the triangle was really close to the ground and about the same size as the Basha's. It was about 200-300 feet above Basha's.

6) Did the UFO move? How far and how fast? Describe its movements in detail.

Slowly, took about 5 seconds to cross Basha's. 1 more second to cross the rest of the parking lot, by the time it was the distance south as the end of the parking lot, it had already started to turn southeast and crossed about half a mile doing it because it was about right in the middle of the square mile.

Then I looked back at the street and turned into Basha's and couldn't find it again. 7) Describe the appearance of the UFO: its shape, size, distance from you and above the ground, color, texture, sound. Draw a picture of it or get someone else to. Huge! it wasn't far at all. I drew a picture of it. The circles are the big bright lights. The one on the right of the paper was the one that seemed to be in the front or the direction the object was heading. The area underneath is from my perspective. I drew a map of the square mile on the left upper corner and the rectangle is the strip mall and the triangle was over that a little more in the parking lot than right over bashas.

I tried to draw the size of the triangle in comparison to the side of the strip mall. The little dot next to the line labeled Higley is south of Elliot and the size of the Toyota Sienna I was driving.

8) Describe the area in which you made the sighting. Is it near an airport? An Air Force Base? A military or research installation of any kind?

Williamsfield Airport base is somewhat near, but the object was low enough for me to see it clearly was a large triangle and looked like no plane or aircraft I had ever seen.

Arizona Triangle Drawing

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