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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
April 21, 2021 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Payson, AZ
While I was outside on my back porch having coffee, I noticed a very large bright light in the sky towards the North side of the State. When I first spotted it, it was sitting in the air not moving. I watched it for about a minute and it slowly began moving towards the West and eventually disappeared from my view towards the West. The object also made no sound that I could tell, although it did seem to be very far away, given its brightness.
April 16, 2021 · 11:32 AM · DISK
Tucson, AZ
On April 16th 2021 at 11:32am I took a photo of a cloud that had caught my attention due to the bright very light yellow glow of the cloud. I was facing southeast (approx. 100 deg. magnetic); this glow was like a sundog. Approximate elevation of the cloud was 45 degrees. The sun was high in the south-southeast. The cloud was also the only “formed” cloud in the area of my vision. I was using a Canon Power-Shot SX620-HS; I was zoomed at 25.65mm,f5.6 aperture at 1/500 of a second. After that shot, I zoomed out to 9.61mm and took a second photo from the same stance at f4.5 aperture at the same, photo data recorded 11:32AM and at a faster speed: 1/640 of a sec. I personally did not see the object when I took the photo! When I downloaded the camera there was the object. Then I looked at the second photo and there is no object. The area I was facing is toward the Davis-Monthan AF base (?)That object crossed my camera frame in less than a second. I am a former Navy asst. navigator and currently a retired professor.
April 15, 2021 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Tucson, AZ
I stepped outside for a smoke. It was absolutely quiet and I spotted something moving above me what seemed translucent like a cloaking device but was not invisible it was like a dark haze and was large in size no lights and was either circle or triangular and made no noises. it was moving fast south. I grabbed my phone to shoot a video but it seemed gone by the time I got my video going. I then looked around the sky line another 2 mins and nothing. I stepped back inside and reviewed my video and happened to catch a 1 frame glimpse of the object 44 second into my 45 second video. That one frame the only moment it was visible as a glow admitted from below the object. but it atleast shows that something was really there in the skys that I saw.
April 10, 2021 · 9:40 PM · CHEVRON
Tucson, AZ
I am a sober middle aged man with glasses. I haven't been diagnosed with mental illness nor ever had a hallucination, to my knowlege. I was outside on my front porch which faces West when movement in the sky drew my attention. I saw a soft white series of lights that looked more like reflections of moonlight than self luminous. There seemed to be two chevrons, one pointed forward and one pointed to the rear at a slight askew, upwards angle, with a distorted, perhaps reflective area between. It blocked out the stars and hazy high level clouds as it passed but some distorted lights seemed to be reflected in the area between the chevrons, which I assumed were reflected city lights. It's size was slightly larger than a silver dollar held at arms length. Within 4-6 seconds it passed from about 40 degrees to the Southwest to 45 degrees to the Northeast where it faded from sigh. It made no sound and there was no way to judge speed or size, other than getting an impression that it was larger than a private plane in size and much faster than any normal aircraft, but I cannot say with certainty. There were no standard navigation or running lights and I am fairly familiar with aircraft. I am convinced this was something unusual. This was over Tucson, between downtown and the University.
April 7, 2021 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Yucca, AZ
Driving home from Kingman, AZ after grocery shopping a silver string ray shaped with a glowing neon green cockpit lit up plus only green and blue exhaust flames coming out of tail end instantly appeared over my car windshield about 5 to 6 feet in the air.As if watching over me driving in darkness down my dirt road for a couple of minutes until I reached my house. Then just disappeared into the clear dark night. Plus have caught lots of pictures of objects flying around my house and found several burned up bushes from exhausted flames. Been trying to find someone to report the sightings to since they were acquiring nightly. Told my brother Joe and my daughter Ashley about it. My Brother Joe thought I was seeing things until I showed him the photos from my security cameras outside. My Daughter Ashley told me to contact MUFON or the Authorities. Couldn't find any contact info to MUFON and had searched their site. So I gave up and started staying with friends and family and not at my home alone. Would really like for someone to please come out there and investigate the happenings and numerous sightings. My Brother Joe finally believed me when he was visiting one weekend helping me fix barbed wire fencing around the house. When he seen for himself strange objects flying over us in the night. Also witnessed by his girlfriend Cathy who was helping us. There was a formation of lights which thought were a squadron of military planes but there was no sound and then they flew out of sight instantly. We have more details but too much to explain on this report. Due to the fact this has been on going for almost a year. Would like to know what is going on around my house.
April 6, 2021 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Surprise, AZ
I wake very early every morning(2:30 am)I look into western sky and see what looks like a star. It moves sometimes erratically left and right or in a particle circle.I have been watching this for weeks.I must say that it's movements remind me of a new driver. It's movements have become more erratic over the weeks.It is moving further now when it moves. Some times it moves extremely quick for a moment.I am not sure why I am reporting this but I find it strange and amusing.
April 4, 2021 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Peoria, AZ
I let my dog out in the backyard before putting her to bed. Shortly after sitting down in a chair on my patio, I noticed a light approaching that seemed quite a bit lower than the aircraft I’m used to seeing in the area, including military aircraft. In fact, within my same view, I could see two commercial aircraft with blinking lights. The craft in question had a solid white light and it wasn’t blinking at all. I’m estimating that the craft was approximately 7-10 thousand feet up and was approaching at a low speed. I watched it for at least 2-3 minutes. It seemed to be on a path that would bring it right over my house, which in near N Dysart Rd and W Jomax Rd. I started to feel like it was actually coming right towards me at one point. My dog then ran over by me and I called my grandson outside. We both stared at it for around 1 minute and commented how it was so low and that there was no noise. It slowly began to climb in altitude and within 5 seconds, it a! ccelerated upwards so fast that it went from a bright light to looking like a small star, and then totally disappeared. The whole sighting was so surreal that I unfortunately didn’t even think about filming it with my cell phone. I'll be ready when/if it happens again. Feel free to let me know if you have any further questions.
March 28, 2021 · 9:01 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
I was traveling in my car and looked over and seen a blue light/object in the sky traveling quickly from south to north. Once I stopped and stared at the object it seemed to have stopped moving. It then started to decend very quickly and changed colors in the process from blue to white as it went towards the ground. I also caught the whole thing on video! I truly believe this wasn't a plane or helicopter!
March 25, 2021 · 7:45 PM · CIGAR
Peoria, AZ
My wife and I were driving home on W Beardsley Rd approaching N 107th Ave in Peoria. Right after crossing over N Lake Pleasant Rd, I notice what I thought at first, was multiple aircraft flying way too low. Since I was focused on driving, I told my wife to roll her window down to take a closer look. There was no sound and the non-blinking lights were solid white. That's when we noticed it was a single larger craft with multiple lights. They were bright but a soft bright if that makes sense. We briefly lost sight of the craft before turning right on 107th Ave and then briefly saw it again. It would have been heading towards W Deer Valley Rd which is where I see that someone else also reported a similar sighting. I would have entered this sooner but had convinced myself it must have explainable somehow. I saw something unmistakable last night (4/5/2021), which prompted me to review this reporting site. Once I saw that someone else had reported exactly what we saw in the same area at the same time, I went back to my email to double check my COVID shot email time stamp. Sure enough, that puts us there on the same date/same time.
March 25, 2021 · 7:40 PM · CIGAR
Peoria, AZ
I wanted to provide update to the report I submitted on 03/25/21. I have been searching the internet on and off for days trying to find a video or picture of the object I saw. I finally came across it. There is a video on YouTube from Feb 2021 of an object over Egypt, I know this sounds to sci fi conspiracy theory like- for it to be over Egypt and by the pyramids, I would have a hard time believing someone who told me this, but this is what I saw! The YouTube video is titled- Caught on Tape 2021 - UFO 2021 - Giant Cigar Shaped Unidentified Object Over Pyramids in Giza, and was reported as MUFON case 74975.
March 25, 2021 · 7:40 PM · CIGAR
Peoria, AZ
Driving home from the store, at 87th and deer valley I saw a large craft that took up over half of my drivers side window flying silently over me, I was heading east, the object was heading south. Stunned and driving I looked repeatedly to see if there were any blinking lights. All lights were solid bright white light 6-8. At first I thought maybe it was an airliner flying really low, but the object was traveling really slow, and again only white non blinking lights. It appeared to be 2 forward, 1 recessed, 2 forward 1 recessed, 2 forward. I couldn’t get a solid visual on shape. I am reporting this, curious to see if others report something. There was a decent amount of traffic while this happened. Feel free to contact me if you have additional questions.
March 20, 2021 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Wikiup, AZ
Location of where we were standing: (34.6078352, -113.5292099) BLM land on Signal Road just south of HWY 93, southeast of Wikiup, AZ. We were looking in the direction of Wikiup (to the northwest). At 8:15pm my fiancé said “Hey, do you see these lights in the sky? Come here!” I looked to the northwest and saw several red lights dimming and increasing in intensity on the horizon and also disappearing and reappearing. At most we saw 13 red lights at the same time in various formations, but most often it was between one and four red lights at a time. We watched the horizon for over half an hour. On three or four different occasions there was a big white explosive burst of light in the sky next to a red light. This white light expanded to a bigger circumference than the red lights, and also faded as if it were a cloud of smoke dissipating. Around 8:35pm we saw two red lights zoom away from each other rapidly and then fade to darkness a second later. This was the first time we noticed they could move, which was really exciting. All the other times, the lights faded in and out in stillness, but this time it was clear that they were floating in the air and could propel themselves to move very quickly. The clouds above the lights sometimes reflected the red color of the lights and also the white explosive lights- it looked almost like lightning, the way the clouds lit up on occasion during this whole ordeal- but the weather was not lightning storm weather at all, so this was peculiar.
March 19, 2021 · 10:38 PM · LIGHT
Scottsdale, AZ
From roughly the 64th Street and Bell Rd intersection, briefly saw a crisp light in the SW sky, moving WSW at incredible speed. Looked to be very high altitude and clear light - completely unlike a plane. Moved at almost "shooting star" speed, but without the tail you get with a shooting star, hence excluding possibility of either a shooting star or a normal aircraft.
March 16, 2021 · 2:22 AM · DISK
Peoria, AZ
I was walking down the street in the afternoon when I can a bright object in the distance. It did NOT look like a plane, drone, helicopter, weather balloon, meteorite, or low altitude satellite. It was flipping around and had an erratic flight path. It was bright at 2:22 pm in the afternoon on a sunny day. I took two pictures in the general direction, hoping my cell phone camera would capture something, because it was moving fast and erratic. Then, I expanded one of the pictures and it looked like a roundish object with bright lights around it. It was mesmerizing, I have never have seen anything move like this thing before in my life. After about two minutes, it disappeared. When I expanded the picture I took, it looked like a round disk, with lights going around it.
March 15, 2021 · 9:15 PM · FIREBALL
Picacho, AZ
On 3/15/21 21:15, I witnessed 3 orange fireball shapes 6 miles out in the west-north-west skies a couple hundred feet over Picacho, Arizona. They didn't move at all. One slowly started to fade and the other two faded shortly after. They lit up once more before fading into the dark. I stayed out for 10 mins but did not see them again.
March 1, 2021 · 5:01 PM · CYLINDER
Phoenix, AZ
Similar to a sighting on Feb 21. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-american-airlines-pilot-new-mexico-long-cylindrical-object/ This sighting occured mid flight at 5:01. Clear as day, a long cyndrical object was seen moving outside 100 ft beyond and under the left wing. I was in seat 17a on flight AA475 from SFO to PHX. It passed in the opposite direction of the plane. I have never reported a sighting of this nature, do not believe in conspiracies, am well educated etc. I filed a report with the local FBI upon landing and wanted to make the sighting public as well. Concerned with safety of future travel if this continues. Other details there was a black (engine) trail coming from the object. If there is video from the plane cockpit, look between 4:59 and 5:02 pm.
February 28, 2021 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Joseph City, AZ
Bright circular object as bright as the moon and 100 feet in diameter traveling west south west over flying rock when it reached a point half way from the top of the mountain to the West side of the mountain it descended vertically with disc shape facing north and leading edge descending vertically behind flying rock which is 1 mile east of black rock and about 6 miles north of Holbrook AZ
February 26, 2021 · 4:08 PM · CYLINDER
Tucson, AZ
Never saw them with my own 2 eyes. I was trying to catch the sky. They clouds looked like living DNA webbing the sky and the sun was producing it. The crafts cloak with the clouds and only cameras seem to pick up their true form. I video recorded a silver cylinder shape UFO going up into the clouds. While small black round crafts almost like drones. There are white bird looking things that are light flying into the clouds.
February 26, 2021 · 7:00 AM · OTHER
Tucson, AZ
On 2/26/21 I saw what looked like 2 suns coming up. I am not sure if it is reflection or real. The same day as the UFO sighting I captured.
February 23, 2021 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Cave Creek, AZ
About seven thirty last night, I was just walking around in the backyard, just listening to headphones and taking a mom minute. I noticed a little red dot at a very,very high elevation. We are in the descent path going south into sky harbor airport, about 25 miles out and this was not a normal plane. It hovered for a minute then quickly headed straight south. It suddenly dropped straight down and disappeared about halfway down.
February 21, 2021 · 8:44 PM · CIRCLE
Avondale, AZ
In the distance of what I would consider to be towards the Lavern area I began to see a light which started out as 1 then out of no where a second light would appear they would both fade out one at a time it happened a couple of nights but not consecutively.
February 21, 2021 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Holbrook (north of), AZ
After going to bed I saw a light speeding along a Victor airway 6 miles north of Holbrook at same altitude of commercial planes only this object was going extremely fast and covered the distance from horizon to horizon in seconds. Traveled west to east
February 19, 2021 · 6:20 AM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
While in my backyard with my dog in the early morning, I looked up to see the stars and saw a long strand of lights flying in line in a south-westerly direction. At first I thought perhaps they were aircraft but it was completely silent. All were single file and very close together.
February 19, 2021 · 4:40 AM · LIGHT
Surprise, AZ
The string of lights looked as if they were the same altitude as the satellite I had been watching. They were moving in the exact same direction and at about the same speed as the first satellite. Here is the approximate formation and number of the lights: . … .. . .. …. . . . … .. .. … . . . . … …. . . . .. . .. . . … . … … . .. . .. . . .. … .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . My camera on my phone would not have captured the string of lights as they were too high. There were no aircraft in the area, no clouds and no ground lighting that would have reached that altitude. There was no sound. The string of lights trailed off one by one, but the leading lights continued toward the southeast all in the same straight line as the original satellite. I would be very interested to know if anyone else saw these lights over the Phoenix area.