

"Some said it may be an aircraft, others said aliens or a comet," said Maier. Maier immediately posted the video to Facebook, and the comments rolled in but none had any explanation for what they were seeing. They were more in amazement, like statues, just watching it," said Maier. "And it wasn't just us, our neighbors next door they were out, they weren't even filming. Every few moments, the object appears to drop what looks to be flares towards the ground. The object captured on two cell phones looks like a bright orb hovering silently in the sky. "It started moving kind of diagonal across, I was trying to figure out which way it was heading, and that's when we noticed it started dropping things from it," said Burnett.

They say the object seemed to come from the southeast. The couple says they spotted the phenomenon outside their Mesa home on Sunday around nine that night. "It was pretty bright, it was about straight up over here, and it went straight that way, stopped, and it didn't seem like it was too far," said DJ Maier and Kerri Burnett, describing what they saw. MESA, AZ - Mysterious lights hovering above the east Valley have many wondering if we've had a close encounter.
