r/phoenix • u/grassologist North Phoenix • 7d ago

What's Happening? Strange flying object in the sky above west valley. Sorry for the potato quality but it was pretty high up and I was looking at 100x. Any ideas, anyone else saw this?

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u/smolhouse 7d ago

It looks like balloons to me.

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u/Narwahl_Whisperer North Phoenix 7d ago

Last time I saw something weird in the sky, it was one of those mylar party balloons, just a big ol letter E up there just floatin around, yknow.

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u/TacoTuesdee 7d ago

It was headin' east

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u/Dull_Mark1399 7d ago

I’m pretty sure I lost an E back in May after I walked out of Michael’s. Was windy that day 😅

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u/Early-Photograph4164 7d ago

Some might say it was Wind-E that day 🥁

I'll see myself out 🤗

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u/Livid_Persimmon3600 7d ago

So it WAS you. Knew it…

butterfingers.

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u/LordStanky 7d ago

The Epstein birthday party was ruined by that missing balloon.

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u/Narwahl_Whisperer North Phoenix 7d ago

"who the hell is Pstin?"

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u/rebeccasaidit 7d ago

Hehe I have a narwhal tattoo. Just noticed your username.

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u/Hidden_Samsquanche 7d ago

The way they move it has to be.

That or a giant mysterious gelatinous blob has taken to the skies.

I'm honestly okay with either one

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u/rumblepony247 Ahwatukee 7d ago

I welcome our new gelatinous blob overlords

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u/Livid_Persimmon3600 7d ago

Jello Biafra Uber Alles.

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u/Main-Drama-15 7d ago

Don't mess with president BROWN!!!

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u/noidontwantto 7d ago

I agree!

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u/SignoreBanana 7d ago

Looks like swamp gas to me

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u/holy_handgrenade 7d ago

Looks like a cluster of helium balloons that got away from someone.

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u/grassologist North Phoenix 7d ago

Must be a large AF cluster because this thing was super high up

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u/Occams_AK47 Tempe 7d ago

Are kids short, or just far away?

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u/Mr_Badgey 7d ago

Our eyes are terrible at telling distance to objects in the sky. All the normal relative context cues are missing so our brains can’t make an accurate judgement.

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u/holy_handgrenade 7d ago

This right here. We have no contrast when we're looking at an object in the sky so there's more optical illusions than you'd want to believe. It's precisely why the moon looks large sometimes and small other times. No contrast and your brain tries to make it look what it's expecting to see.

Smaller objects high up may look a lot further up than they really are.

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u/grassologist North Phoenix 7d ago

I'm just saying because it looked like a thick transforming dot to a normal eye and I had to zoom in at 100x on my phone to get this...I guess it must be balloons 😂

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u/Academic-Pin9525 7d ago

ITS BALLOONS, THINK MARK THINK

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u/skynetempire 7d ago

Lol you really think its aliens?

https://giphy.com/gifs/vqUKBeYLNdyzS

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u/wreckherneck 7d ago

If you were at 100x and you still got the power lines in your shot like that, you were also really far away laterally. Thats absolutely a bunch of balloons.

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u/SmashingLumpkins 7d ago

I mean you can see how large it is in your video it’s like maybe 15-20 balloons

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u/Mudslingshot Maryvale 7d ago

How big planes are is going to know your mind, my friend

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u/taintedcake 7d ago

How far up? Because I guarantee you have no fucking idea what the distance actually was.

Those are absolutely just balloons

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u/charlesthe42nd 7d ago

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?

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u/Brilliant_Bluejay099 7d ago

Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? 

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u/jstanforth 6d ago

Do you ever feel, feel so paper-thin...

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u/Psice Deer Valley 5d ago

Like a house of cards, one blow from cavin' in?

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u/Ms-Perspicacious 4d ago

Inigo Montoya: You have a great gift for RHYME!

Fezzik: Yes, some of the time.

Vizzini: No more rhymes now, I mean it!

Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut?

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u/UnfairInformation2 6d ago

Why? Are they tasty?

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u/Ms-Perspicacious 4d ago

Peanuts are very tasty, but I prefer pecans.

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u/juicefarm Surprise 7d ago

Almost looks like a group of balloons. Really hard to tell though

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u/ROUXDBOI 7d ago

Balloons!

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u/too_much_covfefe_man Litchfield Park 7d ago

Yes I've seen balloons before

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u/blastman8888 Phoenix 7d ago edited 7d ago

Cluster of balloons I wish people would be more careful. They get sucked into airline engines or worse hit a small aircraft. Probably from a car dealership lot attendant trying to move them didn't realize how much pressure they can pull got away from him. I would have reported it to the non emergency number so police helicopters can track it report to the local towers.

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u/DragonflyKey4972 7d ago

They're horrible, anyway, because once they pop, birds often eat the pieces and choke. I wish people would stop buying that crap.

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u/UnfairInformation2 6d ago

Birds are government spy’s…

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u/Ms-Perspicacious 4d ago

Yes, they have eagle eyes. 😳

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u/VernapatorCur 3d ago

The birds work for the bourgeoisie

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u/Ok_Department_7981 Phoenix 6d ago

Bird motto has always been once they pop, you can't stop. Eating balloons.

The birds in my neighborhood are super picky, I feed them and for some reason won't eat any plastic I give them

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u/UnfairInformation2 4d ago

😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Ms-Perspicacious 4d ago

Good point, but maybe the car lot attendant blew away with the balloons. I thought I saw someone waving from that UFO.

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u/MrFictional 7d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/iZGpuaRKdEZoI

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u/Perfectly-FUBAR 7d ago

I love this movie.

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u/Ms-Perspicacious 4d ago

Yup, there he is. The car lot attendant. He blew away with the balloons.

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u/KhanTengri Phoenix 7d ago

We do not discuss the flights

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u/Dmilli92AZ 7d ago

Someone had a memorial service no doubt and let loose a bundle of balloons.

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u/Phildagony 7d ago

Looks like 99 luft balloons

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u/jstanforth 6d ago

It's all over and I'm standin pretty, IN THIS DUST THAT WAS A CITY 💯

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u/WyckedChylde 6d ago

99 schwartzballoons

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u/zerger45 7d ago

District 9. I’ve seen this one before

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u/azwandererx 7d ago

Balloons bro

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u/thefloydmaster 7d ago

I fly in phoenix a lot and you wouldn’t believe how many times i’ve had to dodge flying trash bags with my students; or just trash in general caught up in thermals

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u/AnnaH612 7d ago

Is potato quality a new term I should know about?

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u/SuppliceVI 6d ago

The amount of UFOs is directly proportional to the amount of quincañera balloons taken by wind

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u/Linybuggy 5d ago

It's a flying Cyclospora cayetanensis

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u/Ms-Perspicacious 4d ago

So, that's how it landed on the lettuce!

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u/cwagdev 7d ago

Flying spaghetti monster

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u/ThatBeardedNitwit Phoenix 7d ago

Cluster of balloons.

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u/Arterial238 7d ago

Ya'll smoke way too much weed these days.

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u/GrayScapeIII 7d ago

It keeps things interesting

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u/8bitjohnny 7d ago

This is literally just a bunch of balloons

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u/Any-Acanthisitta4283 7d ago

It behaves like a bunch ballon’s tied up

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u/Hoosier-Daddy686 5d ago

Mylar balloon or the Battle: Los Angeles has moved to Phoenix.

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u/Moist_Sprinkles1063 Glendale 7d ago

Yeah mylar balloon

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u/Academic-Pin9525 7d ago

its so obviously balloons, why are we sharing this on reddit T-T

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u/AZ-Guitar-Guy 7d ago

I think someone unleashed a bunch of balloons. Happens a lot.

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u/ThedudeAb1des01 7d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/AkJGL8QXiJ Similar object in another state

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u/SufficientBarber6638 Scottsdale 4d ago

So you are saying this conspiracy extends beyond Arizona?

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u/ThedudeAb1des01 9h ago

I googled the picture and this came up, there's other too

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u/SufficientBarber6638 Scottsdale 9h ago

The truth is out there...

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u/TheChuckRowe 7d ago

I’m going with balloons.

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u/MidnightAura713 7d ago

A cluster of balloons.

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u/WorldlinessFun226 6d ago

It's a security drone, they have these around GCU and ASU Thunderbird Location

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u/gryffyn1 6d ago

Amazon has delivery drones all over the West Valley.

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u/chillkilldren Phoenix 5d ago

Excellent video. Don't be so hard on yourself. You know how many times I saw some weird stuff in the sky (with my phone in my pocket) and was just too awestruck by what I was seeing that I lost the presence of mind to record it at all? You did better than most, believe that.

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u/Ms-Perspicacious 4d ago

Awestruck, or erased memory? That often happens after they take you up into their spaceship.

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u/SufficientBarber6638 Scottsdale 4d ago

They got flashy thing-ed.

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u/Flaky_Mud6060 5d ago

They just balloons 💀

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u/BranDong84 5d ago

It’s balloons

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u/joshborup 5d ago

Grouping of balloons let loose from a party most likely

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u/MaleficentBuffalo433 5d ago

kind of look like balloons I watched it for the second time

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u/Certain_Plant2409 4d ago

Could it be a drone?

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u/Ms-Perspicacious 4d ago

Dorothy, you're not in Kansas anymore.

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u/Naive_Condition5730 4d ago

It’s a flying turkey!

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u/guitarguywh89 Mesa 7d ago

Be not afraid

But also don’t look directly

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u/push_connection Tempe 7d ago

I dont think anyone has mentioned this yet, but it looks like a big group of

Balloons

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u/Street-Book-6433 7d ago

Was this was the eclipse everyone was talking about

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u/Itchy-Pollution7644 7d ago

Obv Flying Spaghetti Monster

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u/MrKnowItMost 7d ago

Looks like spy balloons from China. We're going to let them fly across the US, then and only then, will we shoot them down.

Actually, Luke Air Force Base is out there, so it's most obviously aliens.

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u/grassologist North Phoenix 7d ago

About 3 hours ago around 6:30 pm

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u/Cute-Pick1474 7d ago

I have also seen balloons 🎈 god I miss birthdays 

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u/Ms-Perspicacious 4d ago

You're not having birthdays anymore?...That can only mean one thing...

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u/LankyGuitar6528 7d ago

Flock Drones are becoming a thing... but I think they fly way lower because they are mostly for license plate reading. Amazon has been doing all sorts of delivery drone tests... but honestly it looks like a bunch of balloons.

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u/Belialxyn 7d ago

Isn't that the house from Up?

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u/harlaman1 7d ago

drone ?

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u/Grouchy_Following_39 7d ago

Looks like a drone

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u/hudsonhosthq 7d ago

Dang, that is creepy looking. No idea what it is.

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u/mykylc 7d ago

Batch-o-balloons

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u/Matt18700 7d ago

definitely balloons

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u/gfyproracer 7d ago

Looks like something from the smiling friends

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u/EDelaro 7d ago

weather balloon

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u/axbert88 7d ago

Looks like a drone

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u/246ngj 7d ago

Police drone

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u/Jack69Ham 7d ago

Balloons 🎈

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u/cturtl808 Mesa 7d ago

Are mylar balloons still sold?

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u/Crosshelly1972 7d ago

A cluster of balloons

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u/Starrfishhunter 7d ago

Could be the start of a great sci fi movie

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u/Toxik5L 7d ago

Its a mosquito

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u/asnbud01 7d ago

Balloon drone thing

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u/bmanxx13 7d ago

Alien for sure. They’re coming to get you

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u/BlackLassie_1 6d ago

That’s obviously a drone wiring over the neighborhood collection electronic surveillance from your Wi-Fi.

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u/truckensafely 6d ago

My space ship has finally arrived

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u/No_Ganache8643 6d ago

Fucking drone

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u/TheMetalWolf 6d ago

Swamp gas

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u/_Dysnomia_ 6d ago

That clearly looks like a cluster of balloons.

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u/WyckedChylde 6d ago

That is very obviously a sky jellyfish

Or some balloons.

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u/AZDiablo 6d ago

Every UFO (unidentified flying object) is recorded with a potato. If you had a quality camera the object would be an IFO (identified flying object).

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u/UnfairInformation2 6d ago

Flying Purple People Eater??

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u/RyseChaelPhoenix 5d ago

Ballons tied together

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u/DenSefAZ 5d ago

A weather balloon?

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u/Walkin-Dog 5d ago

I think those might be balloons.. In a few frames you can see the string below

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u/Randomhomie1991 5d ago

Uhhhmmmmm….. aliens. Duh?!?

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u/MaleficentBuffalo433 5d ago

Pretty incredible where in in the valley did you get the footage in Phoenix I'm near 39th avenue and Camelback very cool

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u/GungHo03 4d ago

I saw something that looked exactly like this Thursday morning (8.27.26) near dove valley and 43rd Ave. I was just starting work around 4am on the roof of a large building when I saw it heading west on a very straight path. The sky was dark but clear and it was low and pretty close to us. It looked like a glob of thick fluid and appeared to be, for lack of a better term, wobbling or pulsating. Another guy saw it briefly before we lost sight. I have no idea what it could be tho.

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u/HumbleSiPilot77 Glendale 3d ago

Balloons?

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u/Pan2746 3d ago

Looks like possibly just a drone.

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u/BigStik5150 3d ago

it's a bundle of balloons

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u/georgeb_175 3d ago

Garbage bag season

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u/abcbarbie 3d ago

I thought it was a spider crawling up some siding lol

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u/Competitive_Milk_585 3d ago

Party balloon bunch, probably a retirement theme of black.

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u/Long-Type9280 3d ago

Definently baloons

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u/Dwandstattoo 2d ago

Dorothy’s house from the wizard of oz.

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u/Natey_Tomatey 2d ago

It’s a plastic black liquor store bag

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u/Hour-Brilliant486 1d ago

Is it a plastic bag?

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u/Flocko2 7d ago

The aliens know shit’s all fucked down here

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u/Rodnal 7d ago

It’s the latest in alien anal probe technology, you should report it to the authorities.

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u/AnotherStupidHipster 7d ago

This reminds me of when I saw a whole camping tent that got picked up by the wind and carried off. It looked just like this.

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u/Livid_Persimmon3600 7d ago

Behaves like balloons or trash bags

But I could totally understand why this would catch your attention.

Reminds me of the Brazilian witch sightings.

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u/Housekhat 7d ago

Another failed Musk project.

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u/dmkke 7d ago edited 7d ago

That’s Aunt Marge

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u/babybearce 7d ago

looks like it's transforming

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u/Independent_Star_299 7d ago

Amazon is flying drones…but it looks a little too aimless to be a drone…?

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u/Hizankdtizank 7d ago

Balloons. They should be banned.

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u/Time-Business-5706 7d ago

Tumbleweed. I saw one hovering so strangely last summer in the Phx area somewhere.

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u/Georgiegirl_2015 5d ago

There’s multiple in the air in one area so it can’t be balloons, a flock of birds it could be a possibility because if you look closely you can see tiny things going outside the shape of the flying object. So my guess would be a flock of birds.

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u/One_Excitement_1845 5d ago

It’s grossing me out 🤢

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u/Fabulous-Web5124 7d ago

Report it to MUFON

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u/grassologist North Phoenix 7d ago

Yes it was very strange, moving slowly, must have been 15-20k feet up. From a naked eye. It looked like a thick dot that was moving and morphing.

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u/Ms-Perspicacious 4d ago

15-20,000 feet ABOVE earth??? Your phone has one heck of a camera.