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During the summer of 1998 I spent two months with my father in Southern Arizona.  One night, my father, sister and I were traveling south on I-19 between Tucson and Green Valley.  The interstate is surrounded by flat desert with mountains miles off in the distance.  I was staring out the window at the bright stars hanging over the impossibly dark desert (there are light restrictions because of Kitt Peak observatory, so Southern AZ is especially dark) when I saw something.  It started as a hovering light in the sky.  I thought at first that perhaps it was a helicopter but it was steady.  Across the sky, streaks of light appeared but not in straight lines like the white ones left by a plane (and I've never seen those emit light!).  The original, steady light began to grow and spread like a spotlight toward the ground.  It was massive, bigger than light from a helicopter, and again, much more still than a helicopter.  People were pulling off the shoulder to watch.  My father, being my father, drove us home.  We watched the news, of course it was blamed on aircraft from Edwards Air Force Base, but they didn't offer any details in their explanation as to what we really saw.

Maybe I've been watching too many X-Files episodes, but this memory has been resurfacing more over the past couple of days so I thought I'd share.

Have you ever seen anything unexplained or unidentified hanging in the sky?