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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
May 14, 2020 · 2:00 AM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
I was on a roof watching the sky and saw a yellowish circular light appear at the top of the sky and shoot directly into the ground at a very high velocity. This was shortly followed thereafter by another similar or identical light shooting into the earth in the same manner. I have never seen anything like it and it cannot be explained due to the speed and direct trajectory into the ground. The angle at which it entered was 90 degrees with the ground, bee-lining into the planet's crust.
May 14, 2020 · 1:59 AM · CIRCLE
Tempe, AZ
At approximately 2:00 AM MST, in Tempe, AZ, I was in my back yard looking in the eastern sky. While observing the moon an extremely bright multi-colored object descended rapidly at about a 10 o’clock position from the moon. It appeared to change speed, briefly slowing then fading in brightness for about a millisecond. The object then became very bright again slightly changing direction disappearing rapidly over the horizon. The object was visible for approximately 1.5 seconds .
May 13, 2020 · 8:00 PM · CHANGING
Waddell, AZ
A bright light towards the direction of Heber/overgaard from Waddell, AZ that appeared to be a shimmering star, was clearly visible even to my mother without her glasses. The light was flashing too rapidly and brightly to be a nearby planet. After roughly 20 minutes, the light began changing colors from several colors as if in a pattern (red,white, yellow, blue, green, purple), all colors were clearly visible but no distinct pattern. Approximately 30 minutes after the light began to change colors, it appeared to dim or become more distant, which it then multiplied.1 light on top, a second slightly below and to the left or north, and a 3rd at the lowest point in line with the highest or 1st light. All while continuously changing colors. After roughly an hour, it became one flashing light again; which eventually dissipated entirely.
May 13, 2020 · 12:16 AM · TRIANGLE
Anthem, AZ
Triangle craft flew by at a low altitude, gliding slowly, and was dimly lit up. It was flying towards the East.
May 9, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Chandler/Gilbert, AZ
As I was hiking up a hill at Veterans Oasis Park, I noticed an ever-changing formation of lights that at first appeared to be aircraft taking off from Williams Gateway Airport. Initially, they appeared to be a squadron of jets with more seeming to lift off the earth joining the airborne collection. The lights were different sizes, but close together. Then, in 2 groups, they formed similar/identical formations: like the shape of 2 stars, or child's toy jacks; followed by a vertical double-helix-like formation, all the while, smaller lights appeared to coalesce into the bigger lights. within 1-2 minutes, all craft had been subsumed into the larger ones and all disappeared.
May 8, 2020 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Eagle Eye Road, AZ
We were heading north on Eagle Eye Rd. We were roadcruising for snakes on the road. My son first saw the objects. Then I saw them. I pulled over and turned off the car. We got out of car and watched for a while. They appeared again and my wife then saw them. 5 large orange spheres (lights) appeared just to the North of Harquahala mountain. Objects were in a straight line. No movement of objects. They were stationary. They appeared three times in that spot. They would appear and they would turn off about 5 seconds later. No noises at that time but a few minutes after seeing them a pulsing thunder noise was heard. Like a thunderstorm rumbling no no storms and relatively clear skies. We scanned the skies for some time and the objects appeared again to the NE. Same pattern. No noise, on for a few seconds and then off. This happened a total of five times. We drove down road a couple more times. There was strange bird activity that night. We hit one bird. Two othe! r dead birds were spotted on the road. Another bird was found sitting in the road not moving. My son got out and walked up to it. The bird did not move until my son reached for it. My wife took a few pictures of the objects with her new camera. The whole experience was a little unsettling.We continued road cruising but not much on Eagle Eye road but on Salome Rd. Nothing else was obverved.
May 8, 2020 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Sedona, AZ
On the evening of Friday, May 8, 2020 in Sedona, Arizona, U.S.A. at about 2045 I was alerted by my wife that a brilliant light was up in the sky. I joined her on the deck of our home and spotted a brilliant white light in the sky to the ENE approximately 20-30 degrees above the horizon. The light was brilliant, steady, and emitted no sound. It remained motionless for approximately 15 to 20 minutes. I was observing this light through binoculars and called my neighbor on the phone (who lives about a quarter mile away). He, his wife, my wife, and I all watched this object until it blinked out shortly after 2100. My neighbor's wife called a friend who lives across town near the Poco Diablo Resort and she also observed the light except that it appeared to be in the sky to her WNW near the Sedona Airport mesa. This seems to suggest that the object was airborne to the north of the Sedona Airport mesa. My neighbor and I are both pilots. I am a private pilot and aircraft owner. My neighbor is a CFII and owner of multiple aircraft. Venus, the planet, was clearly visible in the west, opposite from the direction in which we were observing. The light was significantly brighter and larger than the planet Venus.
May 6, 2020 · 8:00 PM · OTHER
Tucson, AZ
My son and I we're stargazing. We were using a telescope. Then we both noticed a small object zigzagging angled up towards the sky and then angled down. It was a boomerang shape. We could not track it with the telescope but I did with my phone and took a photo of it. We are only a few miles from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The object was closer to the Catalina mountains. The Craft was illuminated White when photographed and seemed to be glowing. The boomerang shape was even noticeable from the naked eye. If needed, I have photos that clearly show craft.
May 5, 2020 · 8:15 PM · CIRCLE
Chandler, AZ
North West of Chandler, Arizona near Venus One "star" appeared, moving at high speed, flashed a bright white light, then disappeared. We then observed and counted nine others exactly the same as the first. They traveled in a row, one after the next appeared, flashed a very bright white light, the light was brighter than Venus is in the same area of the sky. After the flash each one moved only a moment more then completely disappeared. We counted 10 of them. I am NOT joking, please corobarate sighting.
May 3, 2020 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Prescott Valley/Paulden, AZ
The first sighting was about two weeks ago lights over the Chino area. what I thought was a plane was definitely not after I focused on it.The lights could’ve been anywhere in between Mingus and Chino. The light I saw and two other witnesses remained stationary for 10 secondsThen would disappear and reappear moving right towards Paulden and repeated to disappear and reappear until it finally faded over Paulden. We talked about what we saw and agreed it could’ve been an airplane a firework or something from the weather. Then what we saw last night was when I had to report. We were looking into the sky because the moon and the stars were extremely bright last night so then we noticed a orange glowing planet like ball over Paulden something I thought I really didn’t notice before. Then we started talking about the lights we saw the previous weeks. And if you looked closely at the orange like planet it was like there was little twinkles orbiting it like almost s! omething electrical or metal if you really looked closely but they were small shards orbiting it. Then those small shards finally faded and so did that planet or ball of light or whatever it is. Honestly I’ve been trying to give this my best scientific explanation and so has my dad. I wish I had magnification last night to see what was going around that orange light. Finally to give you some perspective of where I saw it from I live at the base of Mingus Mountain and look over the skies of Prescott Valley Prescott Chino and Paulden.
May 1, 2020 · 9:05 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
I noticed a light in the sky directly overhead that had all the characteristics of a satellite traveling approx. SW to NE. I have observed satellites in the past and at first I thought that this object was also a satellite. Then I noticed another one traveling in what appeared to be the same flight path approx. 10 seconds after the first. As I watched, a total of 9 objects tracked across the sky along the same path and approx. 10 seconds apart. Because they were traveling across the sky in a type of convoy (for lack of a better term), I could see as many as 4 at one time. Since I knew that the sun had set an hour or so earlier, I assumed that what I was seeing was sunlight reflecting off of them. This seemed to be the case since as they tracked to the northeast, they faded out. There wasn't any sound or aircraft marker lights. I just thought I'd report it because I'm not aware of satellites traveling along the same path in organized groups.
May 1, 2020 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Sierra Vista, AZ
There were 9 desperate lights, not flashing or blinking moving from northwest to northeast. They were equally separated. They followed basically the same line across the sky.
May 1, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Salome, AZ
May 1, 2020 Driving on the 10 freeway at 8:00ish PM from California to Arizona near mile marker 43 just before the Vicksburg Rd exit 45. 2 sets of 3 large orangish glowing lights in a row side by side above and just beyond the hills directly on the north side of the freeway. They weren’t high enough to be a plane and they were just sitting there not moving in any direction. I assumed they were connected to a tower to alert air traffic of the small mountain/foothill. The height was too high to be a tower but it was pitch dark and I was trying to make sense of it. As I pointed them out to my sister and cousin in the car, they turned off. Not all at once but kind of just like powered down quickly. I waited for them to come on thinking if they were on a tower, they’d be on a timer and they would reappear on and off. They didn’t. About 15 seconds after they went out, there was a tiny flash of white light in the darkness where the other lights had been. Still I was the only one who saw it. Thankfully, about 15 seconds after that, 3 of the lights came back on and stayed on for a few seconds in which my cousin was able to witness them as well before turning off again for good. Then another larger white flash of light and then nothing. We kept looking and nothing again. We watched behind us until we were too far. They were gone. So 2 days later we were driving back home to California and as we came up on that same mountain/foothill, we investigated to make sure there wasn’t a tower there. There was nothing. Just desert. Also, just west of where we saw the lights there is a foothill with towers on it, lots. But they were far behind us at the time we saw the lights and they are clearly visible whereas the foothill we saw the lights near has nothing on them or on the ground below. Just don’t want anyone to think we saw the foothill with the towers, it was definitely behind us at the time where these were directly to our left (north). Maybe someone knows what this was but I’ve made this drive multiple times a year for the past 15 years and I’ve never seen anything like that out in the darkness. I have no explanation.
April 28, 2020 · 8:45 PM · DISK
Cottonwood, AZ
flew from East to West in straight line, flat circular object with dim white lights around edges. Seem to become brighter and then vanished. Appeared larger than commercial jet. Had no sound. Very fast,visible for only 5 seconds. Had no trail.
April 27, 2020 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Quratsite, AZ
Flashing lghts inconsistent string blink bright to dim wavy flight patern the light traveling high rate of speed mot conventional air craft no sound
April 26, 2020 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Mesa, AZ
Walking dog western sky not a planet. actually moving could have been a statilite. Far in the sky moving south to north. No blinking lights. Lasted about 30 sec then disappeared. Do have video very faint.
April 25, 2020 · 11:57 PM · EGG
Tucson, AZ
As an Air Force veteran and retired police officer, I have never seen an aircraft of that color or that moved like this one did.
April 25, 2020 · 8:00 PM · OVAL
Sun City, AZ
On Apr25 2020 at approximately 20:00 I went outside my house as it was a beautiful evening I had my cell phone with me. I may have been outside 5 minutes looking to the west i could see the moon and Venus clearly. I decide to take a picture on my cell phone and after I stood and watched the skies for a short time there after. I never saw the object at any point it was only after going back through photos on my cell phone did I discover that the object was there May 27 2020. I went on line to see what the skies were like as far as planets available in that part of the sky visible at that point on Apr 25 2020 only Venus was up and of course the moon...again I did not see any movement from my perspective left to right or right to left or vertical up or down...and had my see toward that part of the sky for at least another 5 or so minutes after taking the picture before going in the house.
April 25, 2020 · 4:03 AM · CIRCLE
Yuma, AZ
On 04/25/20 at approximately 04:03 hours, while conducting a perimeter security check at my corrections complex, there was a bright flash of light. So bright, that I thought someone was shining a spot light in my direction. I looked up, toward the eastern sky, and above the horizon, there appeared to be what looked like a gash, or a split seam in the sky. There was a bright light coming from this 'split seam' in the sky, and it had what appeared to be a light purple vapor around it's edges. After 7 seconds the object faded away. At 04:05 Hours, in the same area of the sky, there was a amber dot, moving north, north east. The object was visual for 7 seconds before disappearing over the horizon. At 04:07 hours, in the same area of the sky, there was what appeared to be a white dot traveling south. The object had what appeared to be a vapor traveling around the nose of the object, and left a trail behind it. The vapor was white with a tinge of blue. The 'bottom' of the object had a shimmering effect. The object lasted approximately 8 seconds, and faded out of sight.
April 23, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Goodyear, AZ
We saw a very strange object with two lights on each far in in the sky last night that flew in a circular pattern for about 20-30 minutes and the object would be horizontal one minute then vertical the next as the two lights would stay in perfect sync on each end and the two lights would get closer together at times and then go apart really really far and appear as if the object was growing to a size that was 4 times the size of a normal aircraft. It was also loud like an aircraft, but we couldn't see any body of the object or other lights besides the two lights on each end.
April 19, 2020 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Page, AZ
Husband, mother-in-law and I observed lights that seemed to "appear" just below Venus or M1 then traverse SW to NE and disappear. Unlike Starlink formation, these lights moved separately and were widely spaced out, with 1-3 minutes between lights continuing for appx. 1 hour. They all appeared to follow the same path at same speed. There was one instance of two lights appearing a the same time and moving at the same speed in the same direction. We have video.
April 18, 2020 · 6:40 PM · CIGAR
Payson, AZ
April 18, 2020 1840 Payson Arizona Headed south on Arizona Highway 87 just outside of Payson mile marker 245 to 247. Driving through Payson to Phoenix Arizona I was scanning my horizon when A slow moving object caught my eye. I noted the mile marker 245 I continue to watch the object. It looked like an airplane slowing for a landing. I soon realize the object had no tail, it was just a cylinder shape that was tapered slightly at the ends. The object was moving west to east, and was 15 seconds or so in front of me. It was Low I could see it clearly in the day light and had contrast with the Mountians in the back ground. The color was not shiny but a dull gray that reflected the sun just a little. I continue to watch the cylinder object to see if it could be an airplane. Did it have wings I asked? The object began to turn towards me. I saw no wings. I saw a small soft white light. I thought that the light could be the headlight. As the object continue to turn towards me the light grew in size. Eventually the light engulfed the entire diameter of the aircraft. Then “blink” the light turned off and they was is no object or light. At this time I was at mile marker 247. Less then a minute is how long it lasted 2 miles @ 65mph. I knew at mile 248 there was a brake check area. I stopped at the brake check area got out my binoculars and got out of my truck. I began to search the skies for object or aircraft. I saw no aircraft in the sky or the object. Payson Arizona is a small town at elevation of 5000 feet it is a mountainous Arizona terrain. I estimate that the object was the same size as a submarine, smaller than the USS Ohio. Aircraft this large would never land in Payson. Nor could it have landed in that terrain. Some background Professional truck driver Military aviation( Rotary wing ) Was stationed in Hawaii.
April 17, 2020 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Cottonwood, AZ
Facing west towards Mingus mountain, located coming out of the Orion constellation heading approx north passing by Venus as it sets. Multiple orbs crossing sky at the same speed never passing one another scattered through a small angle of the sky passing horizontally into clouds to north. Not blinking, looking like satellite altitude. No sign of atmosphere entry, as if already in atmosphere. Quantity started very high with as many as 10 at once, has decreased now over 25min to one or two ever few minutes.
April 17, 2020 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Litchfield Park, AZ
Looked like moving stars. First spotted one and then many followed over the hour. Most of them appeared in the west, between Orion and Venus, and headed north where they seemed to rise up higher and higher until they disappeared. A few of them moved further to the east and one that hovered for about 4 or 5 minutes made a huge semi circle from west to north to southeast before it disappeared. Several just appeared and rose up briefly till they disappeared. One that was particular brighter seemed to slowly pulsate as it flew.