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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
November 11, 2020 · 6:15 AM · LIGHT
Cottonwood, AZ
At approx 6:15 am I was getting off work when I witnessed a large orange light going very fast in Northern direction by verde valley medical center, It stopped and split in two then hovered and then slowly started moving back south. The other light that split from it continued north and disappeared. I dont even know what the heck I just saw. No aircraft that im aware of makes no noise going at high rate of speed and stops on a dime and splits in two then goes the opposite direction it was going. Totally baffled.
November 10, 2020 · 7:43 PM · OVAL
Williams, AZ
With a group of 5 people star watching in Williams, Arizona. We tracked two satellites and saw two shooting stars, when we noticed directly up above at the height from Earth that a satellite would be, a bright, white orb-shaped object that started out moving similar to the ISS heading south in the sky. We then watched it slowed way down, get brighter and do an odd, jerky zig zag pattern just before completely shooting across the sky like a shooting star heading opposite toward the north and then disappearing out of sight. Ten seconds later it returned coming into view directly above us again and completely stopped for about 10 seconds, then it moved diagonally down toward the tree line and got more dim as it decended until it completely dimmed out about 20 degrees above the horizon. I had no explanation for what it could be. It was speed variable (could go from super fast to stop instantly), it can dim and brighten at will, change directions instantly, no so! und, and the zig zag maneuvers seemed almost like it was blipping in and out of existance in fractions of a second, giving it this weird jerking type of motion. As an experienced star gazer and telescope enthusiast, I have never witnessed anything like it before.
November 4, 2020 · 8:55 PM · SPHERE
Kingman, AZ
I hear the after burners of a fighter jet and looked up to see it chasing a star like orb above are small kingman airport heading south
November 4, 2020 · 8:30 AM · TRIANGLE
San Tan Valley, AZ
I was driving down hunt highway, by chevron and barros, when we looked in the sky there were 3 lights high up in the air, 10 seconds later we could see the actual shape of the craft, it looked like a triangle with rounded corners. Wasnt moving at all, hovering in the air. As we drove away we watched it, and it started flying away super fast, within 3 seconds the lights were gone
October 28, 2020 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Heber, AZ
I was truck driving 20 miles north of Heber, AZ. I noticed what looked like a plane in the night sky. I quickly realized that a plane does not travel as fast as what I saw. It was approximately 20 miles away moving from east to west, at about 15 thousand feet. It had an amber light at the front and rear of the craft, no other lights. It moved at what looked like 3 times faster than an F-15 fighter jet. I observed this object for approximately 15 seconds before it dissapeared.
October 28, 2020 · 7:30 PM · FORMATION
Highway 87, AZ
While coming into Fountian Hills from Payson on hwy 87 my brother and I noticed two blinking red lights that resembled lights that are put on the tops of the mountains for airplanes too see. The problem with that is the lights were opposite the Superstition Mountains and across hwy 87 where there are no mountains. Just north of fort mcdowell casino. Constantly blinking and dark red in color the lights went from stationary and split apart to Slide over and become one unit with the other blinking light. Next the lights flew in unison and constantly blinking those dark red lights straight into the Superstition Mountains where they never emerged. It flew that distance in about 20 seconds before disappearing in what seemed like the mountain. Crazy
October 19, 2020 · 7:35 AM · SPHERE
Phoenix, AZ
I snapped photos in succession and 3 out of 9 of them have this ORB in them.
October 18, 2020 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Phoenix, AZ
me and my daughter watched a light appear above the white tanke mountains about 500ft in the air. then it started moving NE at a slow speed then accelerated to incredible speeds tell it was out of our atmosphere above Table mesa.was out of sight within 2 minutes from start to finish!
October 16, 2020 · 9:25 AM · SPHERE
Phoenix, AZ
Talking to my roofer I saw two what thought you be birds interacting With each other about 3000 feet if I had to guess which was strange .. they passed each other then circled back to intercept and pass again then fly off .. within 5-10-15 minutes later a f-15 flew over very low over the same area
October 12, 2020 · 9:33 AM · SPHERE
Tucson, AZ
Saw an orange sphere moving Southwest over Tucson south side. Moving not fast but quicker than a plane. Slowly faded out not to be seen again. No sound.
October 6, 2020 · 7:13 PM · LIGHT
Clifton, AZ
Witnessed light travel in a straight line from the north for approximately 20 seconds it then executed a 90 degree turn towards the east and proceeded for roughly 60 seconds then slowly faded over the course of 10 seconds. The light was very bright almost as bright as the North Star. And it did not behave or look like a fighter jet or commercial aircraft.
October 5, 2020 · 1:25 AM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
I frequency have insomnia. I woke up just after 1:00 am this morning, want to the bathroom, and couldn't go back to sleep. I went out to the backyard to bring in laundry from the clothesline, and was folding it, facing east. I glanced up and saw two red/orange dots rising to the southeast. They weren't blinking like a plane, just slowly rising. The dot on the left started to fade, and then disappeared, followed by the one on the right. This lasted about 15 seconds or so. A few minutes later, there was one dot rising in the same location. I was able to capture it on my cell phone. The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is southeast of me, in the vicinity of where the dots were. Could this be something coming out of the base?
October 4, 2020 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
At approximately 10:15pm Arizona time, I was driving westbound on Curry Road in north Tempe, Arizona. Curry road almost directy runs into Sky Harbor International Airport before curving around and becoming Washington Street which runs into Phoenix. As I was driving, my girlfriend in the passenger seat said, "Hey what is that?" and pointed at 6 glowing lights that were orange/amber in color that looked like inbound aircraft. Except instead of moving in for what looked like an approach to land, they simply hovered in a pattern. I couldn't determine if they were directly over the airport, due to the fact I was still several miles east of Sky Harbor, or if they were beyond the airport itself. I thought they might have been signal flares, since there is a large Air Force base in the west valley, but it seemed highly unusual that would happen. They also did not behave like signal flares as they did not drop in altitutde and maintained their movements in! a pattern together. As I turned left on Mill Avenue, now going southbound, my girlfriend and I both saw that their lights were disappearing. It seemed like they were moving northwest and gaining in altitude before the light would disappear. I crossed the Mill Avenue bridge and turned going westbound onto Rio Salado Parkway to try to keep a visual on them. I stopped my car and pulled over just before Hardy Drive on the north side of Rio Salado Parkway and saw only one of them left. From what I could tell it was some kind of aircraft, but it seemed to be traveling eastbound at a high rate of speed, before it would slow down to almost a hover, then would speed along some more. Then it seemed to abruptly change directions and head northwest gaining altitude before the light completely disappeared from view.
October 4, 2020 · 1:00 AM · OVAL
Tempe, AZ
Later in the morning I awoken to a sound in my bedroom like a strange ,, it alerted my dog and age wined and that was odd for her to make that sound unless someone is in the room .. Also a rustling sound on papers And a sound outside the window but nobody was there. I awoken feeling exhausted, headache migraine, hearing strange drumming vibratory tones in my ear.
September 30, 2020 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Amado (Elephant Head), AZ
Orange and blue smoke like objests over Elephant Head Az.
September 30, 2020 · 3:30 AM · FLASH
North Phoenix, AZ
I was finishing up working on my wife car when I notice Two white lights in the sky right next to each other. I ran inside to get my wife so she could see em ,the lights were blinking stayed in the same spot for about 15 minutes or so , then stared to move north in the sky it didn't make any noise. This lights wasnt a plane etc. These lights where too bright. After it disappeared the dogs throughout the neighborhood were howling strange. It was odd like as if they were howling circle around me but from a distance from me. I've never seen anything like this. 2 circle slowly blinking big bright lights
September 27, 2020 · 2:50 AM · SPHERE
Tucson (North of; Pima Co.), AZ
On 09/27/2020 at 0250 hours, I was in my backyard looking East. I observed a spherical object of white pulsing light. From my compass app I determined that object was bouncing from 80 degrees East to 92 degrees. The object would dim and brighten, at it’s brightest it would jump to a spot covering up to 5 degrees per jump. It took about 15 to 20 seconds to complete this cycle from dimming to jump to the next coordinate. The movement started to the lower left bouncing up about 5 degrees and to the right also about 5 degrees. The compete cycle from the lower left position to the top right position, then reversed until the object roughly returned to the starting position. No sounds were heard from this object. The object blinked out at 0305 hours. My location was 37•17’49”N 110•51’51”W at Place of observation. The object was due East of my position at about 40• above the horizon. There were no ground lights visible between my position and the object. It was a t! ypically Dark Tucson night. The strangest part of the sighting is the object was almost over the Mount Lemmon Observatory! There are several observatories in that general area. Please contact me with any questions you may have. Please ensure a copy of this gets to Peter.
September 27, 2020 · 1:20 AM · CHANGING
Scottsdale/Fountain Hills, AZ
It was around 1:15 am, Saturday night, Sunday morning. When I decided to go out and have a cigarette. First, I looked out my northern facing window. To check for animals, etc. And I saw what I first thought to be a normal plane or aircraft heading from the North/Northeast direction. Coming towards towards me, so probably heading toward the South/South East. After I went outside, on my porch. I looked around the side of my house (North/Northeast facing). Again, to check for Animals. And I saw the aircraft heading in my direction. But this time, It seemed characteristically different. The tint was the normal yellow-ish. Like from an airplanes guiding light. But yet, there was still no emergency light blinking. The craft then seemed to be almost above my house, at the normal altitude of the regular aircraft's in my area. (And it seemed to be on the normal flight path too.) Then all of a sudden. IT STOPPED. Midair. Stayed there for about 30 seconds. It got brighter, and looked to now be an orange tint light. (I tried to get a video, but my phone was in the wrong mode.) And before I could gather any sound evidence. The craft LITERALLY went back the way it came, and disappeared. No U-Turn. IT just stopped, Mid-Flight. Went dimmer, and shot off the way it came. That was it. The whole encounter lasted about 3-5 minutes. (I'm also counting from when I first saw it through my north facing window before going outside.) When I first thought it was just a regular aircraft.
September 25, 2020 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Fountain Hills, AZ
While traveling south on hwy 87 at approximately 22:30 hours and just north of Fountain Hills AZ I first spotted what looked like a police stopped vehicle ahead of me a couple miles when I came to Sycamore Creek and Hwy 87 at the Log Coral Wash area. As I approached I then noticed the lights were not a police vehicle but a stationary light on a hill that was changing color from red to green then blue. I could see the outline of the top of the hill and knowing the area well there are no roads that take you to the top of this hill. I pulled over to get a video of the light and it appeared to be sitting on the ground as I could see the outlines of boulders around it. I recorded this for approximately 30 seconds with the light changing colors and you can see vehicles tail lights below it on the highway. This area is approximately near mile marker 212-213 on Hwy 87
September 24, 2020 · 8:37 AM · DISK
Scottsdale, AZ
I was driving to work and was at the corner of Hayden and Frank Lloyd Wright in Scottsdale AZ, driving south on Hayden. I was waiting at that stop light when I looked to my left and saw this white line in the sky that didn't look right. I immediately pulled out my phone and pressed the video record button while rolling down the window. I wanted to be sure it wasn't a reflection off my window. With the window down it was still visible. It was not moving. Just stationary in the sky. It was a white horizontal line (but the line was tilted) and it seemed to have a bright core. It looked similar to what you might see with a vapor trail to a jet, however it had a beginning and an end (and the bright core). Suddenly it moved directly downward and then vanished. When it moved it seemed not to accelerate, it just sort of "adopted" a velocity. It did not change its angle in the sky when it moved downward, it stayed tilted, just moving straight down. When its vertical position in the sky got to about the same vertical position as the plane (also in the video) is when it vanished. It was moving vertically for probably about 2 seconds before it vanished. When it vanished it did not slowly disappear, but rather seemed to instantly vanish. I could not park there and video tape it because of the pressing traffic. As I taped it, I was driving too and sadly, when I reviewed the video, my camera accidentally had panned off of the object as I was driving. So I missed its downward motion and its vanishing. On the bright side, my brother analyzed the video frame by frame and noticed that after it vanished it appears again off to the left (North). At this point it is not a line anymore but just the tic-tac shape. When I stepped through the video I was able to verify my brother's claim, and in fact the object was visible to me in this video in about 5 frames as the white vehicle moves underneath it. The UFO is flying very fast to the North.
September 22, 2020 · 9:20 PM · CIRCLE
Cave Creek, AZ
Wife and I saw amber colored object in night sky, just before a storm, above the mountain skyline. Object did not seem to move. Light from Object did not seem to pulsate or change. Object was view for approximately 10-15 minutes before fading out in clouds that envelopes it. Storm was moving from the north to the south. I took 3 photos and one 36 second video with cell phone.
September 16, 2020 · 8:15 PM · RECTANGLE
Tucson, AZ
1 rectangular bright mandarin orange craft rapidly moving from NW to SW and blinked out suddenly in the south. 45 seconds later two seemingly identical in color and shpe crafts one above other flew same trajectory. Top flying craft blinked out, on then out for good.. Craft below traveled further south for a couple of seconds then blinked out for good. Within 10-20 seconds 3 jets took off from ground Davis Monthan and flew in direction of origination of 3 orange craft. 10 or so minutes later 3 jets left Davis Monthan following path of original 3 jets.
September 14, 2020 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
Looked outside as an irregular light source caught my eye. Focused on a bluish green light that flashed across the sky (looking south) it seemed to fall towards the horizon or head south. It was mostly just a flash of light that seemed to be falling toward the earth.
September 14, 2020 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Phoenix, AZ
I was walking my dog with my wife and kids when I noticed a bright light moving in the sky. There were no flashing lights, just a single bright light. It then stopped and hovered. At the same time, I noticed a helicopter flying toward the object. I thought maybe they were both helicopters, and the hovering object was waiting for the other helicopter, but the helicopter then passed beneath it and continued on its path, while the bright object remained. The object appeared to omit a bright light but I could not see if it was shining a light on anything in particular on the ground. It then moved at a very fast pace northeast some distance before hovering again. Occassionally it stopped omitting the bright light, seemed to disappear except for a faint blue light, and then would re-appear as a bright light. Eventually we could no longer see it as it moved further northeast. My wife and our three kids all observed this. The speed which it moved suddenly and without any sound, and how it would briefly disappear and then re-appear, and what exactly it was doing has mystified me and my wife.