Maricopans reported seeing something odd in the sky Wednesday night and it wasn’t a bird, a plane or Superman.  

Dozens of residents took to social media and contacted our news desk to share photos of an odd ball of light hurtling east across the night sky after 9 p.m. 

People weren’t what to make of the strange sight, including Lynn Buss, who posted about it in the Original City of Maricopa Facebook group.  

“Anyone else see something strange in the sky?” she asked. She later added, “It disappeared into no clouds. Reappeared, then — bam — gone.” 

Others reported similar sightings, claiming they watched the object disappear or vaporize into the sky. However, no one had an answer for what they saw.  

The ball of fire was almost certainly a SpaceX Starlink mission that launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., that day at 7:35 p.m. Arizona time and was visible in Phoenix and Tucson at 9 p.m. 

Other more imaginative locals, however, suggested it could have been a tea light inside a graduation balloon, “space junk” or even a supernova.  

Athena Leadros had a different hope for the strange lights.  

“Please tell me it’s finally actually aliens,” she wrote.