On July 4, at approximately 9:00 p.m., Tom Sanger videotaped a very odd-looking object in the sky over the Sabino Canyon, northeast of Tucson, Arizona. Armed with a color night vision camera, Sanger captured a fascinating display of changing lights from the object which stayed motionless in the sky above the Catalina Mountains. The composite image above (starting at upper left and moving clockwise) shows the different shifting multi-colored lights emanating from the object for several minutes. “We were in the Sabino Canyon parking lot on the northeast part of Tucson,” Sanger told OpenMinds.TV. “Sabino Canyon leads right up into the Catalinas. Beyond the mountains is desert wilderness. I just looked at a map and there are absolutely no cities or towns anywhere in the direction the lights were seen for literally hundreds of miles. No airports or military bases at all.” “There was no sound. Initially, I was at 5X with my camera before I zoomed. Thus, these lights were way, way out but still this side of the clouds since they were far off as well. So, no sound, since these were far off lights,” Sanger told OpenMinds.TV. While the term UFO brings to mind extraterrestrial visitations, such photos regularly turn out to be easily explained away as something else. “The sky was completely overcast over the Catalina Mtns. The small dots you see on the screen are normal for night vision cameras and are not stars in the sky,” Sanger wrote on his YouTube page. To avoid any confusion, he also mentioned that he left the time stamp of his video at its original 2011 setting, “so ignore that.” “There were a few cars coming and going out of the parking lot and they account for some of the light shifts. Unfortunately, I zoomed in too much and it destroyed the clarity of the video, but it still captures the amazing event that we witnessed.”
