Two identical, stationary, bounded white-blue flashes directly overhead at two locations about 20-30 minutes apart.

Observation Details

Location

Sedona

34.8697°N, -111.7610°W

AZ, USA

Witness Account

On Friday night, August 7, my partner and I were stargazing near Cathedral Rock view in Sedona sometime around 9:45 to 10:30pm. It was a hot, completely clear night. There were no clouds or storms that we could see or hear. We were off the trail near a roadside stop with nobody else around us. No cars had passed for some time, there were no nearby houses, and we had a very wide, unobstructed view of the night sky. While we were standing there, a very bright flash suddenly appeared directly above us. It was not a point of light, an orb, a streak, or something moving through the sky. It looked more like a defined sheet or patch of light, as though a very powerful electronic flash had suddenly switched on in the air above us. The flash appeared extremely close, maybe roughly 10 feet overhead, around the height of the nearby utility pole. It seemed to be around 10 feet across. The light was pure cold white with a slight blue or purple cast, similar to a very bright, maybe 6000 to 6500K LED. It had a clearly defined perimeter and seemed equally bright across the whole area. There was no brighter center and I could not see any object or source producing it. It switched on instantly,…

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