Boomerang / chevron
Also: V-shaped craft; chevron; flying wing; Phoenix boomerang
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Kenneth Arnold's report and sketch
The archive presents the historical report and sketch. A witness document, not a photograph of the reported craft.
US National Archives ↗Link only — rights with the publisherKenneth Arnold's sketch for Army Air Forces, July 1947
Witness drawing. Arnold's July 1947 letter to the Commanding General at Wright Field, with his sketch of one of the nine objects — a crescent with a convex rear — from the Project Sign / Blue Book file. The word 'saucer' came from a reporter; this is the shape he drew.
Kenneth Arnold (1915 – January 16, 1984) · 1947 ↗Public domainLicence terms ↗An interpretation of the reports
AI interpretation of the wide V or boomerang seen over Phoenix in 1997 and the Hudson Valley in the 1980s: a row of amber lights along each arm. Witnesses saw lights, not a hull — the panelled surface is the illustrator's addition; not a photograph, not evidence.
UAP Record · ImageGen ↗Original illustrationJesse Michels · 1:22:03
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedJames Fox · 0:14:57
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedAmerican Alchemy · 0:57:54
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedA wide V or boomerang, usually seen at night as a row of lights along each arm, gliding slowly and silently. James Fox describes the 1997 Phoenix object as “this Boomerang shaped” craft said to be a mile across; a pilot reports a daylight boomerang below pattern altitude; Arnold’s 1947 objects are recalled as “little chevrons”. Mick West offers geese.
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The boomerang is defined as much by lights as by hull. In the Phoenix case, Jesse Michels narrates that “thousands of people in Phoenix Arizona witnessed a massive v-shaped formation of Lights”, and James Fox says witnesses described “this Boomerang shaped” object — “some people say it was a mile across” — passing overhead, with one man saying he could see “compartments in the metal”. In another episode Fox recalls interviewees “all describing this massive boomerang shaped craft”.
Daylight and earlier reports exist. A pilot guest describes “A boomerang shaped craft below traffic pattern altitude” with a “boot heel type shape”; a historian recalls that Kenneth Arnold in 1947 “sees uh these little chevrons flying about”, about half a dozen. Michels also describes the Gimbal video’s companion objects as “a V-shaped formation” that turns with “no radius of turn”, which is where the chevron shades into the formation reading.
Explanations offered: aircraft in formation whose lights make a false single outline, a classified flying-wing platform, birds — Mick West says a V-shaped shiny object he once chased “Turned out it was a flock of geese” — and an unknown object. The corpus carries no witness who saw the hull of a night-time boomerang in daylight, so the shape rests mainly on light patterns.
Reported characteristics
Every value is a report, not a specification.
| shape | Wide V or boomerang; sometimes a chevron or “boot heel”; the Phoenix object also described as a triangle. |
|---|---|
| size | “A mile across” in some Phoenix accounts; witnesses concede they could not judge distance at night. |
| lights | A row of steady lights along each arm; the Phoenix formation described as amber lights. |
| sound | Silent. |
| motion | Slow, low glide over cities; daylight object reported below pattern altitude; Gimbal companions turn as one. |
| era | 1947 (Arnold’s chevrons), 1980s Hudson Valley, 1997 Phoenix, 2015 Gimbal. |
Explanations offered
Aircraft in formation whose lights read as one outline
Birds in formation catching light
Classified flying-wing or stealth platform
Genuinely unidentified craft
Mentioned in the corpus
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
The Most Important UFO Investigator On The Planet (ft. James Fox) 28 September 2024
- 1:22:03 ▶ Jesse Michels
thousands of people in Phoenix Arizona witnessed a massive v-shaped formation of Lights moving silently across the sky known as the Phoenix Lights the phenomenon sparked widespread speculation about UFOs while some officials claimed the lights were military flares
- 3:06:16 ▶ James Fox
this Boomerang shaped apparently it was some people say it was a mile across some people say it was two miles across it was colossal and it flew over people's homes silently and like made no noise and they could see compartments in the metal
- 1:22:03 ▶ Jesse Michels
Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) 21 December 2025
Eric Weinstein Confronts Government Scientist on UFOs | MEMBERS RELEASE 7 March 2026
Why NASA Studies This Man (He Attracts UFOs!) 6 January 2026
UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate 26 January 2025
- 2:10:02 ▶ Jesse Michels
he's recreated this and it's kind of a a V-shaped formation. uh when the object does this very bizarre kind of reversal of direction with no radius of turn
- 2:10:02 ▶ Jesse Michels
I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) 9 July 2026
Named in 4 uploads (automatic name matching, 8 mentions)
On the map
Phoenix, Kenneth Arnold sighting, Roosevelt carrier group encounters (2014–2015), Phoenix Lights home videos, GIMBAL (Roosevelt ATFLIR video). Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
- 1:22:03 The Most Important UFO Investigator On The Planet (ft. James Fox) · Jesse Michels ▶
thousands of people in Phoenix Arizona witnessed a massive v-shaped formation of Lights moving silently across the sky known as the Phoenix Lights the phenomenon sparked widespread speculation about UFOs while some officials claimed the lights were military flares
- 3:06:16 The Most Important UFO Investigator On The Planet (ft. James Fox) · James Fox ▶
this Boomerang shaped apparently it was some people say it was a mile across some people say it was two miles across it was colossal and it flew over people's homes silently and like made no noise and they could see compartments in the metal
- 0:14:57 Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) · James Fox ▶
they were all describing this massive boomerang shaped craft and I realized, [ __ ] this thing's coming right my way.
- 0:57:54 Eric Weinstein Confronts Government Scientist on UFOs | MEMBERS RELEASE ▶
A boomerang shaped craft below traffic pattern altitude. Uh looked kind of like halfway boomer boomerang halfway heel boot heel type shape
- 2:27:43 Why NASA Studies This Man (He Attracts UFOs!) ▶
Kenneth Arnold sees uh these little chevrons flying about and they were kind of moving freely and you know half a dozen of them.
- 2:10:02 UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate · Jesse Michels ▶
he's recreated this and it's kind of a a V-shaped formation. uh when the object does this very bizarre kind of reversal of direction with no radius of turn
- 2:04:40 I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly...) · Mick West ▶
one of them looked like a V-shaped uh shiny object out in the desert. Turned out it was a flock of geese.
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