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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.
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December 31, 2020 · 7:31 PM · SPHERE
Florence, AZ
Driving on our way home in the early evening on Hunt Highway southbound nearing the Florence Hospital. About 1.5 miles away after passing the butte formations, my wife and I immediately noticed a glowing orange-red “jelly bean” shaped sphere hovering over the southern end of Merrill Ranch Sun City residential development near the Police and Fire Station. We have a lot of air traffic in the area for PHX and nearby AZA. The AZA air traffic is mainly student pilots flying light aircraft at about 5,000 feet (night and day) right over Merrill Ranch and are easily heard from their engine noise and located with their lighting. So when we saw an aerial object not making any noise and stationary it has a high strangeness to us that cannot be ignored. The glowing sphere was so out of place due to its very low altitude, color and lack of noise such as a medical helicopter would make from the Hospital or an Army Helicopter from the nearby military reservation. Normally the Army Helicopters would fly much higher, i.e., 3-5,000 feet AGL. As I made a left turn eastbound off Hunt Highway to a side street. My wife reacted with mounting concern because the object was not moving and it seemed to get a little larger as we were closing distance to it. So I slowed down to about 10 MPH and she rolled down her window and stared at it for about 30-40 seconds looking south and it was silently stationary at 75-100 feet above the roof tops. We noticed that there were a lot of dogs barking in the neighborhood. At the time we thought it was due to coyotes running through the neighborhood, but in hindsight it may be related to the observed object. At this point she had the only view of it and told me it decreased its color temperature to a dull rusty red color and then just disappeared. We were 800 feet down range from its position and It seemed to notice that people were observing it. I have had a prior close encounter in November 2020 and this object may be the same one from November. I will report that separate. The weather at Merrill Ranch was clear skies, some low level dust/haze, cool temperatures in the upper 40’s with light and variable winds from the northwest at about 5-15 knots. I am a former U.S. Military Service Member with combat experience and my wife is a career management professional. The event left both of us with an uneasy feeing, that something so quiet could silently creep through a populated residential area virtually undetected.
December 31, 2020 · 5:40 PM · CIGAR
Surprise, AZ
We don’t get rain to often in Phoenix and it’s surrounding suburbs but that particular day it was overcast and I was in my backyard looking East when I noticed an unusual objected spinning in the air that had a white glow to the entire thing and was tictac or cigar shaped and had no hard edges it was completely smooth and round on every corner. It immured a white light from the entire object all what would be considered its 6 sides (top, bottom, left side, right side, front and back) it also made no noise what so ever and was heading north. The city of surprise sits about a thousand feet higher in elevation to the entire phoenix valley and surrounding suburbs so you can see the entire valley and sky for over 100 miles. I’m located near a air force base and see Air Force jets daily and nightly flying around the area and towards the valley and because you can see the entire valley and the skies above it you can also see the commercial airliners who get in line! for landing and after take off that takes place to the east of me approximately 15-20 miles and living out here the last 17 years it’s very easy to identify both the commercial planes along with the air force jets. The craft I saw looked nothing like any of the commercial or Air Force planes I’ve ever seen as this object omitted a glow around the entire object and spinning so you could see the long side of it and the smaller side as it rotated and again omitted a glow from all 4 sides of it. It was in the shape of a tictac or cigar shape where it was long on the sides and half the length on the other two sides and appeared to be completely rounded on all the corners. It also made no noise what so ever and living here for 17 years you know when the planes are out because you hear them before you see them always. It was traveling North and that made no sense as NO aircraft that I have ever witnessed has traveled North from where this object was sighted, you will see the jets! fly east and then turn north for a brief moment to start head! ing west towards the base again but this object was way to far west and way to high up to be a jet and again it looked nothing like them what so ever. The object continued north for approximately one minute and twenty seconds I recorded it and have the film of the object at which point I lost sight of it due to the roof of the house so I immediately went out front to see continue to recorded the object as it headed North however it was gone and had completely disappeared after that, I stayed out front and looked for the object for over 15 min with no sign of it. This object caught my attention because of its glow and the way it was spinning, when both commercial planes and air force jets are in the air they are dark and often look black against the blue sky and especially against a white/light grey sky like it was that day and this object was the complete opposite. I’m a avid sky watcher and this is the first time I’ve ever seen a UAP or an object that I couldn’t say was either the ! Air Force jets or a commercial airliner or even a small personal aircraft this object looked nothing like anything I’ve ever seen before.
December 21, 2020 · 11:15 PM · LIGHT
Salome, AZ
While driving east on the I-10 between Quartsite and Salome, after passing the mountains, I looked north and seen a bright light in a fixed position in the sky. It split and an exact duplicate of it moved west of it and immediately stopped. The original light then disappeared. I lowered my window to make sure it wasn't a reflection and at that time, the new positioned light then split up and did the same exact thing, duplicated itself and the prior light disappeared as well. This continued for about 10 seconds and then it completely disappeared. I travel this area often and can confirm it wasn't on a mountain and was in the sky. It appeared to be a mile away but was hard to judge distance. The duplication it made was in a perfect pattern. The only time I noticed movement was when it was duplicating. Otherwise it appeared to be paused in a fixed position. The only thing I can compare this to is the intro of older James Bond movies, where there is a white ligh! t duplicated across the screen. Sort of similar but with more of a pause.
December 21, 2020 · 7:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Quartzite, AZ
Walking my dog after sunset. Saw one three red light in the West. Didn’t think much of it until the three lights started fading while at the some time three different red lights appeared lower and to the south of the fading lights. The relative distance between the lights was significant and though at the time I should have heard something if it was an aircraft. I heard nothing. Watched the second set of lights for a minute until they faded too. The lights configuration was middle light slightly higher than the two other lights were slightly lower and equal distance from center light. I waited for maybe 5 minutes for them to return but they didn’t. Heard no noise. The lights were approximately 10-15 degrees above ground. There are no mountains or roads at that height above the flat Terrane of the Quartsite BLM area that’s 6 miles north of Quartsite, AZ.
December 18, 2020 · 11:45 AM · SPHERE
Phoenix, AZ
a bunch of bubbles flying through the sky with 2 little lights in the middle of them. There were about two hundred and they didn’t pop like a bubble and hovered and came down from very high in the sky? Very weird. Kinda freaking out. Some hovered others flew very fast.
December 15, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Pearce, AZ
Over the past 7 days we have had multiple lights hover, move erratically, flash, disappear and reappear. This goes on for hours. Photo and video has been taken. At first we thought it was Border Patrol flying drones near our ranch, but it could not have been possible due to the duration and movement of the lights. Also, we have had several strange Government Vehicles from either the NSA or Homeland Security in 3 to 7 vehicle convoys spotted every morning driving to the area of our ranch. We are very secluded and very rural. The lights are near the Dragoon mountains which are 4 miles from our Ranch.
December 15, 2020 · 6:25 PM · SPHERE
Green Valley, AZ
When exiting I-19 at exit #56 observed 3 bright glowing spheres in a line from north to south in close proximity to each other. Looking through my windshield at about one o'clock at an approximate altitude of 3 to 4 thousand feet, as I entered the round about they when south at a great speed. I was able to pull over on W Canoa Rd and saw them in the south scattered and intermittently flashing and randomly flitting from here to there.
December 12, 2020 · 4:50 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Two of us saw, at first a stationary single point of bright red light against blue sky, then as changing colors of red, white and black, as if it was falling and tumbling while stationary at the low flight level over city at 4:50 pm on 12/12/2020 to the east of our house. Then, it blinked out with no sound and no trail. We saw and heard a plane, coming from the west, go over to the same low flight level spot in the sky, three to five minutes later.
December 9, 2020 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
At 3A and unable to.sleep i decided to take a walk and see if that would calm my mind. I always look up.at the sky...looking for.stars, watching.aircraft from the airbase, spotting satellites, and identifying.the large number of.drones that are being used in our skies. I pretty much know what lights are requiired and where they must.be placed on aircraft and drones....my hobby.has.been.all.about identifying these things. I noticed two propeller driven aircraft approach from the west in the flightpath to.the airforce base. I then noticed two lights...some.type of craft with only a simgular light that appeared to be rotating and.changing color very quickly from red to blue to orange, then green and back.to red. They also had the appearance of blinking, but.it was not in a synchronous pattern as one would see in all aircraft. These lights quickly.came.from the east and.then positioned.themselves above and.below where.the.aircraft would pass. As.the.aircraft gr! ew close to.these lights.they both disappeared, only.to reappear after the aircraft had passed. These lights.then moved erratically, hovering at times. Eventuly.both went to an area of the sky that was about five miles east of where.they had been. The southernmost light divided and became two lights..the southernmost light rapidly.accelerated towards Mexico. The two.lights then proceeded to do a dance...at times.touching..and moving up towards the level where cirrus clouds could.be seen. The last time they.hovered just under the.cloud and one could barely see that.there were apx ten other lights.just above the cloud dancing as well. One light.then disaapeared, the other drifted in a.drunkenly manner towards the northeast. Nothing else appeared, and it was now 0400. At 6A i went.back outside just in time to see a similar object enter my field of view and quickly head west were when it reached the Tucson Mountains began to follow the crest if.this small range.northward. Upon reaching the location of Wasson Peak (highest point.of the range) it gave a brilliant white flash and dissapeared. I sited one other.odd object during.this.time. The constellation Orion was low.in the Southwestern sky heading.for its.setting. I noticed what appeared to be a sattelite moving towards the.northeast, i.noticed it when it was passing over an orange colored star, both being perhaps 20 degrees to the north of Bettelguese. As i had been looking at Orion i found it odd that the trajectory of.this.sattelite meant it.had come through.the field if view looking at Orion. I should have seen it there, but did not. I then noticed that this orange star was.moving.very slowly....i checked Orion to see.how.fa! st it was moving towards he horizon. It was moving much slower.than the.orange star. .Orion also.was moving.in a straight trajectory towards the west. This.star moved in an.erratic pattern towards WSW....not the direction nor speed that all.stars would.be seen as doing. I decided it.was time to.head.in and get ready for.the.day, so.i did.not see anything elae.
December 8, 2020 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Nogales, AZ
Went outside and saw a flickering light (red and white) moving from east to west pretty slowly when all of the sudden it stopped in mid air and the light got really bright (white) for about a minute, then it started moving back the direction it came from until it faded away. I can say the aircraft was flying relatively low and the movement was not that of a plane.
December 5, 2020 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Tucson, AZ
Left to run to the store at 9:27 pm as I’m walking to my car I glance over and something catches my eye but I thought I must have been tripping because it looked like my neighbors tree was on fire but when I focused I thought it was just an amber street light shining thru but once I got in my truck and to the stop sign the huge amber glowing ball which I then thought was a plane on fire was just chilling with me it was fading in and out moving fairly slow compared to the helicopter that flew by it which I originally thought was there to help (idk what I was thinking my brain was everywhere) a car pulled up behind me and I had to move I had been filming it so I moved and then I couldn’t get my video back on and as I looked up there as another one! Even bigger and seemed closer they both flew slowly west then zoomed out south and disappeared with one still flickering occasionally. I should mention I’ve been seeing several of these every day since and other que! stionable things I can’t really explain but I have lots of video!
December 5, 2020 · 10:02 PM · CIGAR
Kingman, AZ
I-was driving north on rt. 66, 10 miles out of Kingman Az, ahead, over and beyond the music mountain range. I spotted 2 red twinkling lights and a much brighter orange light taking up the rear. The 3 lights, at arms length, were approx.1/2-3/4 inch apart evenly spaced,traveling west to east in a straight line,moving very slow. I stopped the car, we watched it for nearly 10 min as it slowly faded out in what now appeared a east northeast direction. as the lights were now at a sight angle and fading fast in the direction of the Grand Canyon..I would guess it was at east 20 -30 miles away.never seen anything like it before
December 3, 2020 · 7:45 PM · FORMATION
Gilbert, AZ
Walking on golf course in Seville neighborhood, formation of lights going in circular rotation, too lights disappearing although no clouds. Started with 2 rows of lights and then on row. Hard to explain so I drew it from memory when I returned from my walk. Unfortunately left my phone home. Slow rotation, perfectly spaced out lights in uniform. My dog was off the leash and wasn’t responding strange just wanted to go home before our usual route was over.
December 3, 2020 · 6:42 PM · FORMATION
Phoenix, AZ
On December 3rd, 2020, at 18:42, I walked out of my house in Phoenix, AZ with my dog to go for a walk. I walked about 8 paces down my walkway from my front door and looked up at the sky (as I always do). I immediately saw 4 PERFECTLY spaced lights moving slowly. The lights were white, just like the stars, and there was no trail of any kind. I was confused at first as these lights didn't belong to any of the constellations or normal organization of the stars. Then I realized they were moving. The lights were heading North, Northeast. I was watching for about 10 seconds then the lights started to turn off or disappear 1 by 1, starting with the most Northern light (or the light farthest to the right). There was an airplane flying more North of these lights, heading Southeast, at what appeared to be a lower altitude. It was simply extraordinary. I said I saw 1 or 4 craft because at first I thought it was 4 separate crafts since there were 4 lights. However, late! r that evening, I thought it actually could have been 1 large craft with 4 visible lights since the lights were perfectly spaced and moved with perfect synchronization. The lights (or craft) were directly west of the Cassiopeia constellation (through Pegasus, according to Google Sky). The lights were a bit bigger than the rest of the stars in the sky which made them noticeable as well. So amazing.
December 2, 2020 · 6:45 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Traveling west to east. Objects were steady traveling dots of light that at first seemed like a helicopter formation. There were no beacon lights nor any color than white dots. It was as if a line of dots was being pulled across the sky. There was not any sound such as propeller, jet or rotors. The pattern was an imprecise pair of dots with a space between each pair similar to the width of the pair. Picture:dot, small space, dot, large space and then repeat. As the lights were steady, I can not be certain they were not connected. Almost as strange, there was a finite range of the lights as if they turned north and so out of sight. The dots were no brighter than the stars they were flying before. Imagine looking at a neon sign in Times Square where the message banner went around the corner. The lights were moving when I first noticed them and stopped within a couple of minutes. I am in this area often and have never seen anything like it. I asked a coworker who recently left the Air Force what he thought. There is a base on the opposite corner of Tucson. He offered ideas but without beacons eliminated helicopters, military drones or planes. We also eliminated the large flares since there was no loss of altitude. The sky was quite clear and sunset was more than an hour earlier so the view was fairly optimal. I did not try to take a photo and think the lights were not bright enough for a phone photo.
November 27, 2020 · 7:00 PM · DISK
Mesa, AZ
This was on Black Friday of last year. I was driving home back from my moms house and stopped at circle k right by my apartment to get mountain dew. As I was driving back I noticed some very odd looking lights in the sky. I stopped my car to get a good look at them and about 5 of them disappeared immediately as soon as I took notice. However 3 were still visible and did not move. There was only 1 of them close to me in the foreground and it had a white/orange glow and waves of light were flowing off of the ship. I looked further up to the one on the top right and could clearly see that it was a disk shaped "saucer". I also took notice that it was "wobbling" on it's axis which immediately grabbed my attention. I gazed for a while before finally deciding to hit the record button on my phone as they were leaving. I uploaded a very short clip on my FaceBook where you can see 3 of them leaving. You can see the orange glow in the video. https://www.facebook.com/chad.waliser/ I no longer live in that apartment, my sister lives there now with her boyfriend. I now reside in Heber, AZ with my mother where she has bought some land. They have not appeared since. Well anyway, let me know what you think. I hope for a response. :)
November 25, 2020 · 6:17 AM · FORMATION
Tucson, AZ
At this time I went outside with my dogs and I looked at the sky when I saw a weird light formation along the sky looked like a tail of a comet but on a formation maybe was the space staton? I will also like to know if someone else saw this formation?
November 25, 2020 · 6:16 AM · CIGAR
Phoenix, AZ
As I was walking into work I looked up and saw what I though was a banner behind a plane. But it was still dark so I looked closer and realized it was some type of craft or multiple. I could not tell it could have been Windows or many small craft flying closely together. I work on a national guard base and it was nothing I had seen before. It was also over Phoenix sky harbor so planes were taking off near it and it did not appear to be an airplane.
November 25, 2020 · 5:30 AM · FORMATION
Boneta, AZ
Large string of lights in formation traveling north to south, above the mountain range over the Eureka Springs Cattle Company/Ranch Boneta). Lights were solid, white, star size and flew at a steady pace across the entire sky. Never seen anything like it. Based on the altitude and the terrain it would have to have been a mile long (estimate).
November 24, 2020 · 4:30 AM · DISK
Apache Junction, AZ
Single, white, glowing disc. I was staring straight up (12 oclock). Disc materialized at 10 oclock and traveled directly west to east before passing out of sight over my roof (2 oclock). It was the size of my thumbnail at arms length. It is pitch black out with no reflecting light source. I live at 2000ft on the slope of a 5000ft mountain. The peak is less than half a mile away to the east (Superstition mountain). It seemed low enough that I waited for an explosion but none came. I walked thru my house to the east side but there was no sign of the disc. I've never seen anything like it and I look most nights. There was no cloud cover and no clouds in sight. There was no sound. I am a scientist/physician with 2 doctoral degrees. I have been watching the sky since seeing an UAP about 21 years ago (see report from York PA in oct/nov 1999). This is only my 2nd sighting.
November 18, 2020 · 5:37 PM · DISK
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
While reviewing a picture I took of a possible plane I found that there were 10 objects in the sky around it that I did not see when taking the photo. They looked to be different shape. I took two pictures and the objects were only in one of the pictures.
November 18, 2020 · 7:27 AM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
While driving saw a bright red flash. A light appeared to be moving with our vehicle. We couldn’t identify it. After we arrived at home, we saw the light again in the sky but appeared closer. It seemed to move sort of in a circular pattern and then stopped snd hung in the air. And then the light got smaller and smaller fairly quickly until it disappeared altogether. As if it were moving away very fast
November 12, 2020 · 7:35 PM · FORMATION
Tucson, AZ
2-6 Red/orange lights appeared in the sky looking west, was driving west on Broadway blvd near Harrison rd 2 lights appeared to be next to each other at first, then the left light rose higher with great speed, then disappeared As it disappeared, another light appeared to the right of the lower light, then 2 more appeared in the same fashion leaving 4 lights lined up in the sky, evenly space out The far-left light then disappeared as another on the far right appeared, this repeated 3 or 4 times before they all disappeared at once, fading out quickly. Similar to the first formation of 2 lights, another 2 appeared right as the rest faded. The lights started traveling west (same direction as me) and I lost sight of it behind some buildings and trees, I was looking to the right side of the road. This is the second time I saw this kind of phenomenon. The first time was 12 years ago near Maurenci / Clifton AZ while I was out camping on spring break with some family/friends. After the sighting that night, a few moments later, 3 or 4 military jets came out of nowhere and circled the area we saw the lights. They left as quickly as they arrived. It was more than bizarre and I’m amazed to have had the privilege to witness it yet again.
November 12, 2020 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
At around 7 pm, I was sitting in my hot tub in my backyard, looking at the stars. Suddenly, I saw what appeared to be a shooting star. But, it was moving much too slowly to be a shooting star, so I thought it was a satellite. But, as I watched the object cross the sky, it kept slowing down and speeding up,and swerving side go side. I was not an airplane, because it was way too high up, and was not blinking. The object looked just like a star, or a satellite. There was only one. My background is that I am a 19 year old college student, and I was sitting in my families hot tub with my dad. He was not wearing his glasses, so he could not see the object.