I live in Laveen, Arizona. Just South of Phoenix. It was a normal night for me and my younger brother. My cousin came by, we were chatting sitting at the back porch table. Interrupting our conversation was a very loud noise coming from the west side of my home heading east. My cousin rushes to the outer side of our porch while I poked my head out to see. My brother stayed at the table not caring what the noise was. What me and my cousin heard and saw were 2 military helicopters. I watched them fly by with their lights on and thought that they were flying at a pretty low altitude and that it was odd that they flew by around that time because ive only ever heard them fly by during the day. Once they went by my cousin walked back to his house and me and my brother continued to hangout on my back porch. About 10-15 minutes after my cousin left we heard another group of helicopters coming from the west. This time I don’t just peek my head out the corner, this time I stepped all the way off the porch and onto my yard. As I’m looking towards the sound of the aircraft I can only see the lights of one helicopter, I knew something was odd because I was sure I was hearing more than just one aircraft. I continue to watch and listen as the sound came closer. As I’m waiting for the helicopter with the lights on to come closer for me to see and pass by, I see 2 of the same type of helicopters flying by heading in the same direction (these 2 were about couple hundred feet ahead of the helicopter i saw with the lights on, so they were right above my house by the time i noticed them) except these 2 helicopters had no lights on whatsoever. They had every light off on the aircrafts. This was why I was only able to see one helicopter in the distance, when I was sure I heard more than one. As I am stunned to see them flying by at that time of night, at that altitude, and with all their lights completely off I catch the sight of a fourth aircraft flying right in front of the 2 blacked out helicopters. This object was grayish/white in color and it was oval shaped. It had no wings, it had no propellers, it had no fins, it had no windows. This thing was literally just an oval. As soon as I noticed the oval shaped object I yell for my brother to come see what I was seeing. I shouted for him to hurry before it got too far for him to see. As he is getting up from his seat and coming to where I was standing I am walking backwards further from my porch trying to keep a visual on the thing. I even tripped on our small bbq grill . By the time he gets to a point where he could be able to see anything the only thing visible to him were the 2 blacked out helicopters. Although he got a clear view of the 2 blacked out helicopters and also the helicopter with the lights on he did not catch the oval shaped object i saw. Afterwards we went into the house and I wanted to tell my whole family but didn’t want to be made fun of so I just told my mom and messaged my girlfriend in excitement explaining to her what I saw. I have my own theory on why the helicopters flew in the order that they did. I think that the 2 helicopters in front had their lights completely off to avoid compromising the object they were following, and I think that the helicopter that had the lights on was guiding them from behind at a distance. It makes sense for me to believe that they took flight from the Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, because that’s the direction they came from. Also Lockheed Martin has a corp building there.
I will provide a screenshot of Google maps highlighting the aircrafts path that night and also the place where I think they may have taken flight from.
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