This article will give you an idea of what is being reported over the state of Arizona in 2012. This state has always been one of the most active for UFO reports. Two of Ufology's most important cases come from Arizona; The Phoenix Lights, and The Travis Walton Abduction.
Let's look at some of this year's best reports. We start in, where else? Phoenix.
Phoenix - 06-07-12
The object I saw consisted of three large orange lights, formed in a rather straight line (although the center light seemed to be slightly lower the other two, but only by a hair). Though the lights were not visibly connected by any sort of discernible fuselage, I got the sense that they were each part of one singular craft.
The distance between each light was equal. I also got a strong sense that this object was triangular, perhaps equilateral. Moreover, it was quite large; much larger than any aircraft I've seen before. The craft made no discernibly significant shifts in position, neither vertically or horizontally. It just hovered.
Situated over flat terrain, and above a heavily-populated, low-lying residential area, it hung in the night-sky at a relatively low altitude; much lower than planes departing from or approaching Sky Harbor Airport.
I was driving south on I-51 at 10:28 PM. As I approached Shea's exit ramp I saw what I thought was an extremely large (and normal) aircraft off to the west; three large orange lights (what looked to be the lighted ends of each wingtip and nose). I passed the exit and soon lost my view of the object due to topography (a small mountain range just beside the road within northwest section of Phoenix Mountain Preserve, west side of the 51).
Beyond this exit, I-51 makes a series of curves through the range. Coming around the last major bend (near Dreamy Draw), I gained sight of the object again. I thought it looked quite peculiar, but I almost wrote it off as nothing special. I continued to look at it as I came around the curve, and finally decided to pull off onto the shoulder to get a better look.
Trees obstructed the view, but I could see two of the tree lights through the branches. I slinked over the center console into the passenger seat, pulled my binoculars out of the glove box, opened the passenger window, and saw that it was definitely no ordinary craft.
Since the object looked like it was going to move out of the trees any moment, I waited for about 10 seconds before I grew impatient. I jumped out of the car (with the binoculars) and walked 15 ft. up the shoulder (north), giving me a clear view of the object straight west. Three large orange lights hovered over north-central Phoenix.
From where I was standing the object was almost eye-level, but slightly higher. Its distance was too hard to judge, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was roughly 500 yards away; maybe more. This didn't seem to be an ordinary craft because:
1) the lights on the craft were orange;
2) given its distance from me, the lights on the craft were very large (about the size of a racquet ball held away at arm's length);
3) the punctuated distance of one light from another signified a wingspan significantly larger than any craft I've ever seen before; and
4) it hovered (demonstrating no positional shifts).
I heard nothing but the traffic of I-51, thus if any sound was associated with the object, it was not heard. I watched it for about 4 minutes. At one point the object seemed to be coming closer as the lights grew slightly larger. Then the object seemed to slowly retreat, as the lights got smaller and more defined (i.e. the edge of each light became much sharper, less hazy).
