Sphere over Cottonwood, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Leaving work noticed silver/black sphere traveling north west in cottonwood
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177420). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-08-04 → 2023-08-21
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October 23, 2023 · 6:29 PM · SPHERE
Cottonwood, AZ
Solid white glowing orb, silent, left no trails or anything. Traveled East to North, no blinking lights. Sky was absolutely clear, no clouds at all (I have screenshots from Weather app). Wind 5 ssw with gusts up to 15mph; Visibility 25 mi. No transponding aircraft over that area (see Flightradar24 video attached). Started roughly in Pisces, above Jupiter, and ended video in or just above Perseus (checked SkyView app). The distance of the orb would have been far out of our city and beyond the next town easily. The only aircraft transponding was directly above my head (which I heard while taking the video, and saw above me). I recorded the video with my iPhone 14 Pro Max, from my front yard. Solid objects in video include house, tree, and stars. No SpaceX launch tonight (Oct. 21st was most recent launch). Also checked FindStarlink map, and heavens-above to see Starlink video launch map, nothing in this area of the planet. FindStarlink using my coordinates shows nothing visible tonight (see screenshot). Live Space Station (ISS) Tracking Map shows ISS was nowhere near the U.S. (see screenshot)
July 11, 2023 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
Cottonwood, AZ
I was sitting on my side patio at around 9:15 pm which overlooks the Verde Valley all the way to Sedona. My patio faces east and the objects appeared from the north by Jerome and flew at a speed I estimate was 200 to 300 mph to the south towards Camp Verde. There were some light clouds that the objects flew under, so I estimate their altitude to be less than 5000' to 7000'. The objects were of various sizes and brightness, and some flew closer than others, but they all flew at the identical speed in a straight line and made a few maneuvers that were all perfectly synchronized with each other. I estimate I viewed them for 5 to 7 seconds before each disappeared 1 by 1 at the exact same spot. There was absolutely no sound coming from them. It was a very surreal sight that was hard to comprehend. I was on duty the next morning and before I started my shift briefed my supervisor on the incident to see if she had heard any reports from dispatch from that night with regards to what I spotted. I have viewed the Star Link satellites in the past and this was not even a close resemblance to them.
May 11, 2023 · 4:06 AM · CIRCLE
Cottonwood, AZ
Please see video and picture just one constant light
October 19, 2022 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Cottonwood, AZ
Driving through Cornville to Cottonwood, AZ in westbound on. E Cornville rd. E. Cornville rd turns into E Mingus Ave. I saw red and green lights above the road in the distance. It’s 8:00pm October 19 2022 and in a dark area without traffic lights. The lights appear to be stationary hovering above the road. My eyes are on the road while we pass under it. My vehicle has a full glass roof and my girlfriend in the passenger seat could clearly see 3 stationary yellowish/white lights in a triangle formation 300ft above us. I thought that maybe it was three drones so I rolled down the windows and there was no sound coming from them. I drive an electric vehicle and the speed limit was 25 in the area. It was silent. I turned right into the next available street to get a better look but could not see it. I went back to where we first saw it not even a minute ago and it was in the distance at least 30mi away at a much higher altitude. We are both in our 30s. I’m a business intelligence analyst and my girlfriend is a songwriter.
July 4, 2022 · 7:10 PM · LIGHT
Cottonwood, AZ
Watch light pulsed then when it went into the clouds did not dim could still see if pulse. Then flashed and disappeared.
April 30, 2021 · 7:42 PM · LIGHT
Cottonwood, AZ
The past 3 nights my husband and I have seen between an orange to a red glow light that appears moving erratically then disappears and reappears again this has all been at the same time at night 9:42pm mountain standard time. It moves fast stops then Slowly moves only to start blinking as it descents down and disappears then reappears in erratic movements almost as if it had landed and took off. Tonight May 2nd was a different story we saw the red lights again at 9:42pm due the routine. At 11:15pm mst we noticed a very bright white light off into the distance moving erratically the weird thing was there were vehicle light off to the distance from where these lights where. The strange thing about this the two vehicle lights turned into what appeared to be 4 vehicles that disappeared. There aren't any thing that would mask the "vehicle lights" they were lined up in a straight row almost as if the tail lights were pointed in our direction in which cas! e would be impossible for it was on a road not a parking lot. I believe this was an aircraft. This was not caught on tape as it wasn't picked up by cell phone video camera. My husband did say that for a brief time his video did see facial recognition.