Light over Maricopa, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Amber/Orange Lights
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2003-01-19 → 2003-02-05
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October 9, 2023 · 10:10 PM · LIGHT
Maricopa, AZ
Saw 2 diffuse orbs flying together but traveling very fast. They were spotted to the east one on top of the other and then shifted to fly side by side and then disappeared. No visible shape or structure seen just very diffuse lights. They seemed to come from the east in a circular tract…. Not flying straight on the horizon line
September 7, 2023 · 5:41 PM · SPHERE
Maricopa, AZ
A flying white/metallic orb seen flying south at a rapid rate passed over our home. Airline radar indicated no active flights in the area at the time. Unable to get a photo, the orb was extremely reflective once at a higher altitude and moved in strange ways until disappearing.
August 31, 2022 · 7:24 PM · FIREBALL
Maricopa, AZ
On 8/24 at 8:45pm facing South towards Sonoran Desert National Monument, my husband and I saw 3 "fireball" looking orbs hovering over a distant hillside towards the Sonoran Desert National Monument. They suspended/hovered in the air for about 5 minutes before "extinguishing" but not dropping, and moving to another location east (maybe a couple of miles?) and reappeared. These eventually "went out" and we did not see them again that night. On 8/25 at 9:45pm, again facing South towards the Sonoran Desert National Monument, 3 lights appeared while my husband and I were out stargazing, hoping to see the lights again that we'd seen the night prior. They maintained their location in the sky, just like the night before, and were the same glowing amber lights/orbs. They again disappeared, and reappeared SSW towards Yuma, this time seemingly further away. This lasted roughly 10-15 minutes before we did not see anything again. Then, last night on 8/31 at 7:20pm, I was in my backyard facing North (completely opposite direction of past 2 sightings) towards South Mountain/Ak Chin Reservation, when I saw 3 glowing amber lights, just above the horizon line. I have included photos and videos of what I witnessed last night. I was terrified upon first sighting, as it looked almost as if they were coming towards me? The lights seemed to grow brighter and brighter, and I had a weird feeling. This time my husband was not home, so I ran inside and called him, and viewed from my bedroom window that faces north. I could still see the lights and they were hovering over the horizon line facing North, 3 lights in a horizontal row. About 7:34pm, the lights changed into a triangle formation, and then over about 2 minutes, they changed to a diagonal formation. Eventually, one dimmed (did not extinguish because I could still see it) and moved west of the original location. The other two maintained their brightness. After about 20 minutes they dimmed. At 8:20pm, all 3 bright lights were visible again in the same area, and again moved from a triangle formation, to a diagonal, as seen in the still photos from the 3 minute video I took.
July 28, 2020 · 9:40 PM · FORMATION
Maricopa, AZ
orange spherical light came on about 1 mile out and 1/2 up then 3 spheres appeared simultaneously to the left and the right of the center spear and then then all blinked out
April 7, 2020 · 9:29 PM · DISK
Maricopa, AZ
I recently purchased a home security system due to criminal activity being perpetrated by the squatters next door. This security system is an "ReoLink," equipped with infra-red capabilities. At approximately 9:20pm, the criminals arrived home & began unloading objects from the car, to the house. At approximately 21:29, I noticed a very large bright light signature on my infra-red monitor (Smartphone, see attached security camera photo.) This light on the monitor was NOT blinking, like most normal airplanes & helicopters. It was shaped like a disc & had a protrusion on top. (It resembled a lid on a cooking pot, complete with the knob handle.) It was a full moon that night, not a cloud in the sky & stars, too many to count. It was quite clear that night. The skys were very busy with Homeland Security airplanes. I believe they're the aircraft's that have that quick blink Police car Mars lights. I counted 6 planes in the eastern skys, before the UFO manifested itself from thin air. I watched this non blinking UFO for a couple minutes & decided to step outside to look at this object with my own eyes. I took my Smartphone/monitor with me. I stepped out onto my northern/front porch, looked toward the eastern sky & could NOT locate the bright object, all I could see were distant flashing DHS Flashing airplane lights, however, when I looked at my Smartphone/monitor, IT WAS THERE, CLEAR AS DAY & large, bright, silent & stationary!!! I did a double take! Again, I looked into the eastern sky with my naked eyes & saw nothing but distant blinking DHS airplane lights, then I once again looked at my Smartphone & there it still was, just silently floating there, huge & bright!!! I ran inside & informed the Mrs. that the object was INVISIBLE! I left the monitor on the table where she was sitting & this time, I ran to the other porch, on the eastern side of my house. Again, the large bright, glowing object was not there. I ran back in the house & the object was still on my infra-red monitor, silently hovering in place & stationary. Again, I exclaimed to the Mrs., "THAT THING IS INVISIBLE!" She decided she wanted to take a look for herself & just as she got up to go to the eastern porch, we noticed on my infra-red monitor, another object suddenly turned as bright as the first one & it was right next to the original object!! I wpuld estimate that these objects were over or near the "T&K Cattle Farm" on route 84 & Miller Road, 2.5 miles from my home. The two objects then proceeded to fly directly west in our general direction & covered 2 miles in about 3 seconds & they stopped on a dime, very close to the twin mountains near my house! There they remained, silent, no noise whatsoever, hovering, bright & bigger than before due to proximity. This was observed by me & the Mrs. on my Smartphone in infra-red mode. The UFOs stayed stationary for about 3 or 4 seconds, then they flew off at a high rate of speed toward the southwest, in the direction of the Barry Goldwater Military Firing Range. We concluded that either our military has an amazing technology that enables an aircraft to travel over 3600 m.p.h., silent & cloaked, invisible to the naked eye OR it was NOT one of ours, from this dimension. I know that sounds crazy, but I know what we saw! It was a one in a million chance encounter. Had I not recently purchased my new Security System, this episode never would have occurred.
November 11, 2019 · 6:58 PM · LIGHT
Maricopa, AZ
We were in our friends backyard. It was a very clear night. You could see some stars. I noticed a string of lights, some brighter than others traveling across the sky, at a slow rate, slightly slower than a plane high up would travel. We watched as the farthest left light climbed higher and the other lights followed. They moved across the sky from north heading south. We watched and then they just disappeared. Were gone but we did watch them for what seemed like a good minute or two. The lights maintained their intensity. We knew it wasn’t a meteor or anything breaking up because the lights weren’t falling down, they were going up and across. They trail of lights to the right was following the farthest one on the left.