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Sightings
Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
4,277 entries
October 17, 2021 · 10:39 PM · FORMATION
Chandler/Maricopa County, AZ
My friend and I were driving on 347 from Our town maricopa to Scottsdale.There was 1 diamond shape very bright UFO. As we were looking at it it then split in half. It was to the right of us as we were headed to Chandler area. After it split in half,a third one appeared out of nowhere. It started moving north towards Chandler but the main bright UFO stayed put. There was actually a few people on the side of the road watching as well. We decided to chase it and find out where it was going. We are new to the area and we ended up somewhere in the Chandler area and there was a formation that we caught on camera. There was five actual in a line formation might’ve been six but we are sure it was at least five by the time we got the camera out we only saw three. We were trying to find a place to park and catch it more activity but again we did not know the city and so we turned around went into a Circle K got gas. We asked the gentleman if he had seen the lights in ! front he said thank you so much for confirming and the answer is yes now I know I am not crazy and then also confirmed what we saw was correct. Also as we were on the freeway chasing the lights as we got off the freeway we saw an officer that was actually looking in the direction and again there was a few other cars in the Chandler area that we’re watching. The whole thing lasted about three hours we are so tired so from about 10 o’clock to 12:50 Am They are still out there
October 16, 2021 · 6:20 AM · FIREBALL
Wellton, AZ
On October 16, 2021 at approximately 6:20 a.m. while traveling on Interstate 8 between Yuma, AZ and Wellton, AZ I saw the following in the sky. I had just come down out of telegraph pass, pass the Ligurta turnoff (21) and I saw an object in the sky making a streak of light. It was not as fast as a shooting star but it was much faster than an F35. The sun had not yet crested over the mountains to the east (Mohawk range) but it was dawn and someone light outside. The streaking object began to turn green. After looking at a color chart I would say "Spring Green." The trajectory started changing into a downward position as if it were going to crashland. The object grew brighter and more intense. It was just a bright flame of green light at that time. Perhaps I watch too much television because I was expecting it to explode or create a plume of smoke and dirt upon impact. That didn't happen. It just appeared to burn out quickly and was gone. ! The entire event took seven seconds. I suspect it was something entering our atmosphere and was not as close to the earth as I believed it to be. Had it followed the trajectory it woudl have landed North or Northeast of Wellton, AZ.
October 15, 2021 · 3:45 PM · OVAL
Phoenix, AZ
Metallic gleam of light caught my eye looking up and towards the south mountains in my backyard. It appeared as a small speck in the sky, but with my Sigma 400mm lens I was able to capture some images. The craft appeared spherical, even star shaped in some photos.
October 4, 2021 · 3:45 PM · SPHERE
Sow Low, AZ
Saw it wile riding in car
September 16, 2021 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Tucson, AZ
At approximately 7 p.m. mountain standard time two witnesses observed a strange formation of lights in the sky. The formation was comprised of one larger light, with smaller lights in a web-like pattern surrounding the larger light in a circle. Around the formation, seemingly moving with the formation, was a distinct halo of gaseous or fog-like material. The formation hovered for minutes, when initial movement was observed, it can only be described as moving in a cadence similar to how a frog swims through water. Witness 2 counted two beats between each movement. When watching through binoculars witness 1 observed the color of the lights change from a pale white to a red hue. The witnesses momentarily lost sight of the formation as its lights seemed to dim or fade. Witness 2 caught sight of the formation again, this time at a lower altitude and with lights appearing to be a light green hue. Witness 2 followed the formation with binoculars as it moved steadil! y from southeast to northeast at a much lower altitude. Witness 2 watched the formation until it was out of sight. Witnesses did not photograph or record the formation because cameras on hand could not focus on the formation in a detailed enough manner.
September 13, 2021 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Litchfield park, AZ
Observed a circular shaped object rotating green,blue,red,orange and white lights. On a relative heading of 270 at very high altitude. My father pointed it out to my wife and I we went out back to look. She is a trained USAF meteorologist as I am myself from my time in the USMC. I’ve also been a pilot for 7 years. I have never seen anything like this before. It was stationary and not moving as I observed a star in the background to use as reference to its position. I used a 60x spotting scope and it’s colors were vibrant and rotating. It stayed bright and in one spot for 20 minutes then started to slowly fade into the distance. Eventually becomes a bright ball of orange as it faded. Went back outside at 2150 and the object was completely gone. If I had to guess off my years of flying/meteorological experience I’d put the craft at a altitude of roughly 40 to 50k feet. The only way to describe to colors was like a rotating Christmas tree of colors but was very! much shaped like a ball possibly disk.
September 13, 2021 · 3:15 AM · DISK
Apache Junction, AZ
Approximately fifteen miles to the south of us we saw a large stationary disk, gold in color hovering at an undetermined height. Below the disk were many brightly colored objects that seemed to be drawn or attracted to the disk. In a very chaotic fashion and independent of each other they would at high speed ascend to the disk some would swirl up and others would shoot straight up and every variable in between. Some of the objects were extremely bright while others were relatively dim. We saw many colors, red, blue, orange, white and green. The whole incident was fast and furious. It resembled insects attracted a bright light. The background of observer one is a retired medical specimen processor for a major medical laboratory. Observer number two is Healthcare worker who works with disabled adults. At 6:40am the incident was still happening and was observed the preceding day at the same times and was also undetermined as to when it ended.
September 2, 2021 · 5:35 AM · CIGAR
Gilbert, AZ
As I was walking south down a sidewalk on Recker and Guadalupe, I heard an electric surge from power lines above me, and when I looked up there was this silent military sized large drone object hovering about 500-1000 feet above the power lines. At first it kind of floated, and a contraption extended from it, like the head of the robot from the 80s film, "Short Circuit," and it seemed to monitor the power lines. Then for about 20-30 seconds the drone remained stationary above the power lines at a hover. The ufo was the shape and form of a playstation controller. When I moved north to get a better look at it the ufo did a slight glide manuever and then vanished without a trace. If it was a drone I would've seen it as it fled but this thing literally just vanished in thin air. I believe it was analysing or monitoring the power grid. I don't think the electric company has sophiscated drones like this to send out and monitor power lines, it was a uf! o!
August 25, 2021 · 2:35 AM · DISK
Tonopah, AZ
To start, I am reporting this about 90 mins after witnessing the event. This event took place at work (largest nuclear power plant in the nation, located west of Phoenix, AZ) The night is clear, full moon, not airplanes in the area (restricted air space). At about 0235 hours, I was on top of one of the main building roofs (I’m apart of facilities “protection”) I was walking around to stretch my legs. I noticed a light from a distant mountain, so I took out special night enhancing opticals (I can’t say exactly what they are, it would be a breach of security). The light proved to be nothing, but for the heck of it. I took the optical and looked at the moon to see how it would display. When I did this, I saw what appeared two circles or dish flying by the moon. I looked without the optical and saw nothing. I once again looked through the optical and saw them again. I watched them head northwest flying in aridic behavior. One made a right angle turn while the other went out of view. I ran over to the office/post on the roof to get my partner. He came out with his opticals and we both started looking for these objects/lights. We located three far west over the mountain range. These objects/lights would speed up and slow down, disappear and reappear through our optical at no point in time could we see these with the naked eye. My partner then discovered a spot in the sky were there were many in one location. We estimated them to be about 10 to 15 thousand feet in the sky, we also eliminated the possibly of them being aircraft, bats, owls, drones, etc, because the right angle turns, speeding up and slowing down, we even googled how high can bats and owls’ flight. Lastly, one mode of vision on our opitcals allows us to see edges of objects these were clearly round. After about 15 mins of watching these objects in the highly populated spot, we took a break from using the optical because of strain on our eyes and necks hurting from looking almost directly up. As we took our break, we looked back to the spot with only our eyes and one of disks appears. The disk appeared to be semi translucent made no noise traveled from northwest to the southeast. There were no lights on it, but the surface appeared to look jellyfishy. We both think either the dish was picking up light from the facility or the moon, which allowed us to see it. (leaning more to facility light, because when the dish started flying over the open dark desert, we lost sight of it) The was the agreed description among us. The dish literally appeared out of nowhere and quickly faded out of sight. While it was moving, I yelled to my partner who had his optical still on. He quickly looked at it under “edge mode” and he said it looked like a donut. We estimated the object to be no ! higher than 8 to 10 thousand feet, while the other objects were now thought to be 30 to 40 thousand feet. We both once again looked at the spot where we say many flighting around and there were only a few, plus they were flighting very slowly or were floating. After several more minutes when by the remaining high-altitude object disappeared. During this event I was able to take my cell phone place into the optic to video record and take a series of photos of the many objects, I was not able to get the picture of the actual dish but did get another series of photos of some type of light/dish appear in photos moving but can be seen with the naked eye. These photos and video are available on request.
August 20, 2021 · 7:40 AM · OVAL
Sahuarita, AZ
I was driving my children to school when we witnessed an oval-shaped, bright, silver-white object in the sky. We had stopped at a traffic light and watched the object moving north. It was west by southwest from our location and appeared to be moving over the mine tailings that are west of I-19. The object moved north a short distance, then changed shape. As it changed shape, it “sandwiched” into a flat line then vanished. My son and daughter witnessed this with me. My son said “that has to be a UFO!”. At the time of the sighting, it was daylight, with clear skies.
August 18, 2021 · 10:07 PM · CIRCLE
Tucson, AZ
I have a video and a picture. Not sure what we saw. I woke my daughter up so she could look at it also. 2 objects, one was under the other. They hovered over the back canyon area behind our hotel.
August 18, 2021 · 10:07 PM · CIRCLE
Tucson, AZ
I have a video and a picture. Not sure what we saw. I woke my daughter up so she could look at it also. 2 objects, one was under the other. They hovered over the back canyon area behind our hotel.
August 3, 2021 · 10:00 PM · FIREBALL
Buckeye, AZ
Orange glowing balls all flying about the same hieght above ground (15-20deg above horizon when viewed from 10 freeway) spaced out over a good few miles possibly 20+mi. The orange balls would move gently swaying close to each other, fade out/fade in, come together in pairs and fly high. The lights have been appearing every night since aug 3 2021- aug 5 around 22:00-2300. Some nights there are 4 lights other nights I've seen 2 just lights flying around together. The night of august 4 I Tried to drive to the lights but the further I drove closer the further they seemed to be (very far). I noticed about 5 other cars pulled over on the road trying to record the lights as well. I possibly thought they might be hot air. Balloons but they dont appear to have the large balloon above that would glow. The light is also very bright orange glow which seem very big considering how far away they were from my viewpoint.
August 3, 2021 · 5:13 AM · CHANGING
Queen Creek, AZ
On 8/3/21 At 4:45 am I started videoing something bright in the South sky that was rotating, changing colors size and shapes. I heard an aircraft from the West and I look and there was a flying saucer and a black ball with legs landed on my neighbors roof and ran until the tree blocked my vision. The saucer had went more South and was closer to the rotating thing. The black ball thing with legs appeared again and disappeared. The saucer turned and headed West. I have a video of all of this and screen shots.
August 2, 2021 · 8:45 PM · FORMATION
Gilbert, AZ
The object or objects spotted was in the evening while taking out the trash for the evening. As I liked up to look at the stars that evening to judge the weather pattern we had that evening. I noticed amongst the sky very light clouds and one cloud that showed a star like lighting, but in a pattern that stayed with the light cloud formation. As I stopped to watch and think about what I was seeing and then a neighbor who took noticed of what I was doing. I ran into the apartment for my camera, another person from the parking lot was also trying to understand what he was looking at as well. I came out to the both of the to take a photo as the seemed not comfortable with what was being seen and left me there as the object had changed to a multiple light craft to a single light object and the blended in with the stars in the background. The conversation with the others that spotted the object or objects after I did have both persons commented on the fact how far! the object must have been set in the sky to be simular in when the Phoenix light encounter had happen many years prior. From there this is all I am going to say on this subject. What I will say this was very obvious a very large craft to see not only the lights that stood out but the outline of the craft itself.
July 30, 2021 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Tucson, AZ
Was taking storm photos, and never saw objects, till reviewing photos I noticed a streek in the sky, not lightning, and then two green colored objects in parallel, moving slowly. Can post pics have plenty.
July 13, 2021 · 3:30 AM · LIGHT
Tonopah, AZ
I walked out my house at around 3:30AM on august 13 2021 and saw what looked like a star move in jolts I then knew it was a ufo because of the movements, I called my boyfriend outside and we saw about 9+ together within the range of 3 hours, two stayed in the same section hovering around so as we watched those and saw the others in passing, most were headed south. One was headed north, this specific one flew the fastest leaving no trail just a fast dot moving , I chased after it and it stopped and seemed as if it came closer, I called my mom and we all saw as the ufo moved into the clouds, I was the only one to see the ufo close the cloud to cover itself. We watched this ufo till the sun came up to see if it would leave but no, as the stars started to fade into the bright sky the ufo was the only bright dot left in the sky within the cloud. It wasn’t until the sun fully came up until we couldn’t see anymore. Two ufos had what looked like headlights as well.! Others also looked as if they flew inside the clouds intentionally too. On August 19 me and my boyfriend saw another ufo in front of the house, this ufo stopped moving when we recorded and moved as soon as the phone was out away. Every single one looked like a bright white dot.
July 4, 2021 · 8:10 PM · CHANGING
Phoenix, AZ
On Sunday, July 4, 2021 at approximately 8 PM I was driving my vehicle in Scottsdale, a suburb of Phoenix traveling northbound on a very populated though fare. N. Hidden Rd. I turned left onto E. Indian School Rd. in Scottsdale. As I made my turn and look to head up to my left I noticed three spherical objects that were very bright in the early sunset. All three seem to have her momentarily and then move in unison. Within a few moments one of the spheres would loop out information and disappear, and then within seconds reappear at a different position within the formation. This happened approximately three or four times within the span of 2 to 3 minutes. Then, one by one each individual sphere just vanished. All three spears were the same color and did not change color. They were very bright yellow slight amber color. They made no sound as they moved there was no cloud displacement. It was as if they were doing a bit of a dance or a routine. They appeared to be in the area west of my location which would put them approximately over the eastern portion of Phoenix potentially close to Phoenix sky Harbor Airport. My location at the time and I witnessed the event was approximately 5 miles south east of the Phoenix sky Harbor Airport.
July 4, 2021 · 3:45 AM · TRIANGLE
Peoria, AZ
Standing outside on my patio at approx 3:45-3:50am I looked up to the south and saw 4 dim lights. 3 in the shape of a triangle and an extra off to the side tagging along. The tag along glided back and forth, east to west a couple times. The entire thing was traveling south to north. All lights were dim, no sound, traveling in a straight line, and very low in the sky.
June 20, 2021 · 9:10 PM · LIGHT
Gold Canyon, AZ
There was a giant ball of white light that travelled from SE to NW so fast that you would’ve missed it if you blinked. It would’ve been traveling thousands of MPH. The object was a huge glowing ball, relevant to the size of maybe 20+ airplanes put together. It was so bright it was hard to look at. It zoomed right over the town, and then it was as if it hit an invisible wall and just disappeared. There was no tail or trail behind it, it did not fade out or disperse, it was just a giant ball that zoomed across then was gone as fast as it was there. No sound was made.
June 17, 2021 · 7:35 PM · DISK
Gisela, AZ
I set up my trail stealth camera facing the sky facing upwards. The disk seemed to be letting out some sort of vapor or chemicals into the air. It began to shape shift while hovering for two minutes right above my home. The previous night on June 16, 2021 at approximately 9 pm, the object flew over my head. It was a bluish welder’s light with a metallic or titanium black craft. It immediately vanished and made no sound. I was taking the trash container to the street for collection when this occurred. After reviewing the photos, I was positive that it was the same craft I had seen.
June 15, 2021 · 12:00 PM · CYLINDER
Casa Grande, AZ
I was working outside at my new house. (I live up on the top of a hill with no obstacles hindering my view for at least 50 miles.) I noticed an odd shaped aircraft just gliding right overhead. At first I thought it was a blimp but I am familiar with blimps and this wasn't shaped or really looked like one. This was more flat and straight like a pipe. It resembled as if it were made out of stainless steel. I didn't see any lights or markings. There were no wings and no propeller noise. I watched it for a few seconds and realized that it wasn't making any sound. I took out my phone to get a couple of pictures. I wasn't really thinking about taking video or more pictures. I kind of just wanted to watch it with my eyes. I jokingly posted the pictures on Facebook and thought no more of it. Now, almost a year later, I have yet to see anything quite like it. I have become accustomed to all sort of air traffic around here. I have a lifetime of experience being around aircraft. My step-dad was in the Airforce and we would attend many "open houses" while growing up. I also spent time in the Marines. I have worked at O'hare and Midway Airport. I really believe that I know what a conventional aircraft looks like. This one has me scratching my head though.
June 10, 2021 · 8:05 PM · UNKNOWN
Anthem, AZ
Bright lights that would be best described as "moving stars" appeared from 5 to 20 degrees above the horizon and would dim and go out, only to return again. At maximum, there were 3 at a time. It was difficult to tell how many craft there were, because they would disappear and reappear so we were unable to discern whether they were same craft or new craft. They hovered and moved slowly in the same area for approximately 45 minutes beginning at dusk. Several times, one of the lights would become very bright and flash brilliant colors in quick pulses, in a random rhythm (unlike the steady rhythm of flashing lights on a plane). At one point when one became very bright and flashed colors for a few minutes, it then dimmed slightly and split into two separate white lights that moved slowly in separate trajectories then each dimmed out, to the point of being completely extinguished. Once it became completely dark, the activity subsided to the point where ! there was only one light visible consistently, though it did dim, fully extinguish, and come back again. At one point we also observed a faint white orb that seemed to come out of one of the brighter lights, move away, and then dim to the point of being completely extinguished.
June 10, 2021 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Heber, AZ
One hot-air balloon shaped object in the sky at dusk that seemed to glow on its own. It moved slowly away and faded unto the night time sky and stars. It was a bright yellowish light and at some point seemed to have red lights in the glowing aura.