100% chance it's made up since there's no video evidence. These days nothing happens w/o someone filming.
[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41223/tucson-mystery-d...
[2] https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F16243890...
Just saying quite hard taking pics of moving objects even though cameras are quite good...
Some UFO story.