UFO PHOENIX, AZ 5 18 2009

UFO PHOENIX, AZ 5 18 2009
EYE WITNESSED BY ME AND THESONOFLIBERTY420.
UPDATE: Article from The Arizona Republic News Paper http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/05/18/20090518abrk-ufosightings05...

The mysterious UFO hovering over Arizona Monday has been identified. It isn't a weather balloon and it doesn't carry aliens.

The object was actually a massive 4,000-pound research balloon released from a NASA organization used to measure gamma ray emissions in high altitudes, according to Bill Stepp of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas. The balloon was launched Sunday morning at about 7:30 a.m. from Fort Sumter, N.M., and was grounded at about 9 p.m. Monday just south of Kingman, Ariz.

Stepp said the balloon usually floats at an altitude of 130,000 feet, so on a clear day it can be seen for about 170 miles. He said the balloon has raised concern from Albuquerque to Phoenix.
It's something unusual, Stepp said. People just don't know what it is.

Sightings all over Arizona Monday afternoon had several residents wondering what exactly the object was.

Marshall Valentine works in an office off Scottsdale Road and Acoma Drive and said he and about five other co-workers spotted the object high in the sky around 2 p.m. He said the object stayed in place for over an hour.

It looks like someone blew a bubble in the sky and it stayed there, Valentine said. A plane flew under it and it looked like it was a mountain higher than a plane flies.

Similar descriptions of an unidentified flying, clear orb were also reported out of Sedona.

Jennifer McCoy, who runs the UFO Store in Sedona with her husband, said a local resident told her about the object in the sky at about 2 p.m. She said she went into the parking lot and saw the object in the cloud line. It was about the same time Valentine spotted the object over Scottsdale.

McCoy said the object looked like the gigantic bubble from the Wizard of Oz. She also said it stayed in one place for a while.

McCoy said she thinks some people will be skeptical of her report because it's just the UFO Store seeing a UFO, but McCoy said the other reports out of both Scottsdale and Sedona give the sighting some credence.

Though for a while the balloon was an unidentified flying object in the eyes of many Arizonans, the NASA research balloon was always accounted for.

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[darthgarlic]

Its called VENUS you backwoods drunken idiot.

[OldSchoolAmerican]

@darthgarlic I am getting real tired of responding to dumb fucks that can't read the more info section. Read it!!! It's a weather balloon!

[christmasjeer]

It's not too early to see stars or a planet in the sky. I never saw that light move I did see the clouds around it move. You turned off the tape as a dark cloud came in front of it. This was proof of nothing.

[OldSchoolAmerican]

@christmasjeer I am getting real tired of responding to dumb fucks that can't read the more info section. Read it!!! It's a weather balloon!

[seviization]

fake its 1 star in the sky

[OldSchoolAmerican]

@seviization YOU NEED TO READ THE INFORMATION IN THE MORE INFO SECTION UNDER THE VIDEO. THIS REPORTED ON THE NEWS TO BE A WEATHER BALLOON LAUNCHED IN NEW MEXICO. THEY LANDED IT NEAR KINGMAN, AZ

[OldSchoolAmerican]

@DS42296 We are still waiting for Obama to tell the truth about anything.

[TheUfolab]

Myself and two others watched this that day for amost an hour. No, not. Venus. No, not a weather balloon. it is impossible that it was venus, because it wasent there the next night.secondly a weather balloon has a very long teardrop shape to it. This was neither. Sorry. I can just back up what I say with facts. Time to face reality

[icanadian18]

wow you fucking faggot. This vid sucks whyd you disable ratings. Cause they would fucking suck.

[darthgarlic]

@OldSchoolAmerican "Im getting real tired of ..." Well then stop responding you hick!

[TheUfolab]

we witnessed this from avondale

[davidnx2k]

i got like 7 minutes of this thing and that thing is not a weather ballon it was fucken huge and it was producing its own light why would a weather baloon do that for? any one who couls answer that ?

[davidnx2k]

@OldSchoolAmerican he will just say say yup we brought it down and dump it in the sea

[isurfvan]

however the other lights in phoenix hav eno explanation....and who even knows if this is a weather balloon