© KGUN9Steve Raw saw the lights and isn't quite sure what they were.
Suspicious lights in the sky were seen by several KGUN 9 viewers on Saturday night. What were they?
Was it the military? Was it a flare? Was it an alien spaceship? That's what KGUN 9 viewers are asking about some strange lights that appeared in the sky on Saturday night at around 10:39. Several viewers called the 9 On Your Side newsroom to report sightings.
Sheila Martin captured the sight on camera from an east Tucson gas station and posted the video on YouTube. Martin said that she saw at least four lights moving from south to northeast in a boomerang formation.
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"I was shocked. This is happening right over our heads. I was amazed!" said Martin.
Others also recorded the event and posted their videos online. One Tucson man reported seeing as many as 16 lights in formation.
Martin said what she captured on video should look familiar. Remember the Phoenix lights from the late 1990's? Thousands of people saw the triangular glow in the night sky. The military said that they were flares but many are still skeptical.
"What's the connection to the Phoenix lights? They imitated them to the T," said Martin.
Steve Raw of Tucson also saw what he described as a trapezoid formation.
"They were very small, not twinkling and static" Raw said.
"Do you think this could've been a UFO?" asked KGUN9 reporter Tammy Vo.
"As in extra terrestrials?" Raw replied. "I don't have the expertise to make an opinion, but I think it's possible to some extent."
9 On Your Side took the video to James McGaha. As a former military pilot and now an astronomer, he has spent forty thousand hours looking at the night sky. He said he thinks the lights in question came from flares.
© KGUN9Actual military flares
"What do you think it was?" asked Vo.
"I'm gonna say, aliens. I'm sure there's all types of different aliens out there. I believe we're aliens. There's human aliens out there visiting us," Martin said.
But McGaha says, even "alien logic" explains why the lights did not come from an alien spacecraft.
"You have to ask the question, if an alien spacecraft is going to fly here through thousands of light years to get here, are they going to turn their lights on at night?" McGaha explained.
A spokesperson at Davis Monthan Air Force Base told KGUN 9, they did not launch any flares at that time and aren't aware of what the lights were. Some KGUN viewers suspected that the lights came from parachuters who jumped in the Tubac area during a hot air balloon festival. KGUN 9 looked into it and found out that the festival happened between 5:45 p.m. through the eight o'clock hour, several hours before the suspicious video was shot.
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