Alright, so I'm usually strictly a ghost bloke - got my Mel Meter, my K2, the whole haunted-basement setup - but Thursday night I stepped outside for a smoke around 11pm and nearly choked when I saw something moving over the treeline towards the south.
Not from Phoenix myself, I'm out in Nevada, but whatever was drifting across my bit of sky didn't look like any aircraft I recognise, and I've lived near enough to Nellis AFB long enough to know what military hardware looks like overhead.
Three points of light, dead silent, moving in formation - or as one object, hard to say - slow enough that it wasn't a meteor, too high and too quiet for a drone. Gone in maybe 90 seconds.
Now my actual question before anyone tells me to ring NASA: is there any credible way to tell whether multiple lights are separate craft flying in tight formation versus one large object with lights at each corner? Genuinely asking because my eyes apparently can't be trusted at 11pm after two whiskies.
Also - does anyone run a dedicated sky-watching setup? Wondering if something like a Sionyx Aurora night vision camera would've actually caught this properly, because my phone was predictably useless and produced roughly four pixels of nothing.
Weird night. I'm sticking to ghosts, they're less confusing.