Did anyone else see the following or know what was going on? At about 7:30 PM tonight (Friday) I was set up in my observatory to take some comet pictures. As I was making adjustments what looked like a giant meteor headed down nearly due west. It was leaving a fiery trail. At spots it seemed to be exploding, almost like fireworks. Then just before hitting the ground it zoomed nearly straight up. This was going very fast and this side of the white mountains. Still leaving a fiery trail and what looked like explosions. Finally it faded. A few moments later another another one. This time it looked like it came from the ground. These may have been rockets from Luke. Then most strange of all another one took off did some gyrations like the others, but seemed to merge with something will flashing lights. Still moving at what would appear to be rocket speeds (way beyond what I have seen jets do, it seemed to slow and just the blinking lights remained. I watched this with binoculars (way to fast for the telescope) until it had traveled north for a couple of minutes. It then circled back slowly, acting like a normal plane at at normal plane sped, turned on a landing light and seemed to land. This was in the area of Luke AFB. I'm about 10 miles east and could not see much below tree level in the distance. My observatory is two story and I did get an excellent view. Did anyone else see this or have a clue what happened. It was very spectacular. I was thinking everything from a rocket attack to accident with missiles to the arrival of ET. :-) This all happened between 7:30 and 7:45 tonight. Jeff Jeff Hopkins HPO SOFT ********************************************************************* Phoenix, Arizona Atlanta, Georgia 7812 West Clayton Drive 12170 Boxwood Circle Phoenix, AZ 85033-2439 U.S.A. Alpharetta, GA 30005 U.S.A. (623) 849-5889 (Fax) (770) 619-3322 (Phone/Fax) www.hposoft.com & amug.org/~hposoft dataman.home.mindspring.com 4th Dimension Partner FileMaker Pro Expert BASIC/C++ Programmer & Web Site/e-commerce Site Development Over 25 years of Computer, Programming and Database Development Experience -- This message is from the AZ-Observing mailing list. See this message's header if you want info about unsubscribing or the list's archive. This is a discussion list. Please send personal inquiries directly to the message author. In other words, do not use "reply" for personal messages. Thanks.