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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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March 3, 2020 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Chandler, AZ
2 blue spinning orb like objects (with a nucleus) moving across sky.
March 1, 2020 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Tonopah, AZ
Hello, I live Tonopah Arizona, which happens to be within ten miles of the nations largest nuclear generating station – Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. I have observed many strange lights/objects in the sky since I moved into this area in 1996. Tonopah is about 40 miles west of downtown Phoenix. My children grew up here in Tonopah and have also witnessed many strange occurrences in our night skies. I am not writing today to report a recent event. I was not aware there was such an entity as the UFO Center for reporting until I watched the documentary by Dr. Lynne Kitei called ‘Phoenix lights’. I do not recall seeing this UFO, nor did my children report seeing this specific event, dated March 13, 1997. What I am reporting today is the continual sightings around the Palo Verde area in general. From my observations the visits continue to be in the March and October timeline of the year, however, that’s not to say previous observations were not made during other months of the year. Fact: Palo Verde down-powers one of the three power generating units to refuel and complete required maintenance every March/April and October/November on a permanent basis. Observation: Nuclear power would most likely be of great interest to other life forms outside our world. If others worlds are observing earth, powering down and then powering up nuclear generators could attract their interest or attention. I have never tracked or reported any of the 10+ sightings I have observed, at any time, in the past 25 years. I simply acknowledged that there are extraterrestrials and go about my life. The last sighting for me was in March, 2020. I have a direct view of Palo Verde from my backyard. There is nothing but flat desert from my backyard to the corner where Palo Verde is situated about ten miles away. At night, it looks like a city, all lit up and naturally, we look at it nightly. One night, while sitting at the table with my husband, both of us looking out towards Palo Verde, three lights appear suddenly in our field of vision. They are directly above Palo Verde, high up in the sky. I ask my husband if he see’s the lights – Yes. We both see the lights. There are three round lights in a triangle formation, each light equally distanced from the other. We watch, we watch, perhaps watching for at least 5 minutes, when suddenly one of the lights just fade away. So now there are only two lights, still equally distanced. We continue watching. We both have our phones, and with the camera’s, we take a couple pictures. However, there is nothing on the picture that is identifiable. The lights are too far away to be captured on an I-phone camera, it’s just a speck in the background. I grab the binoculars. Now I can clearly identify the lights in the sky. I observe halos of colors (amber, green, blue) that surround each of the circles of light. The lights aren't moving. Not at all. They are stable and steady. I give the binoculars to my husband, and he watches the lights. There are still only two lights at this time. Again, I look through the binoculars and as I am watching the lights, the third light slowly comes back and now I see three equally glowing lights again. We continue to observe the lights until they disappeared suddenly from the sky. One minute they are there, the next gone, just disappeared. However, we continue watching. A minute or two later, the lights re-appear, but they have moved to a different position in the sky. They were directly in front of us last time, and this time they are to our right. We continued to observe three round lights in a triangle formation, each light equally distanced from the other. The whole observation was at least 10-15 minutes long. Again, I saw what I saw, acknowledged that there is extraterrestrials and we both went about life, never reporting anything to anyone. But one never fully forgets what we have observed in the Tonopah sky at night. I have many of these stories, my kids have stories, I’m sure others here in Tonopah have seen ‘something’ as well. What I can say today is that the very next time this type of phenomenon is observed in the Tonopah sky, I will be sure to report it on your web-site asap! If someone were interested in setting up a good camera in hopes of getting some video, I certainly have the place to do it!
March 1, 2020 · 7:00 PM · FIREBALL
Queen Creek, AZ
There was one initial ball of orange and red light that went in a straight line across the night sky approximately four or so miles high in altitude. The "ball of light" did not leave any kind of trail behind it and remained circular the entire time. There was absolutely no noise and it did not blink like a plane would. The speed was too fast for an airplane at its altitude, even the fighter jets we watch due to luke air base. This was not a meteorite as it was too slow and the light was not correct, leaving no "tail". The trajectory was flat, not varying in height. There was also no variance in speed. The "ball of light" dimmed after approximately 30 seconds then blinked out well before reaching the horizon. Right after the initial "ball of light" disappeared two more followed approximately 18 seconds later. These two were exactly the same as the first and were side by side along the exact same path and altitude. 17 seconds after the two "balls of light" the fourth and final one came into view and again followed the same exact path at the same altitude. Everyone of them disappeared in the same exact location well before getting out of viewing range. They were all the exact same color, orange and red mix, which is why they looked like flying perfectly round balls of flame. Again there was absolutely no 'tail' and couldn't have been a meteorite. As a naturalist in a different state for over a decade I can attest it was something I had never before seen even after many hundreds of star gazing programs.
February 28, 2020 · 4:45 PM · SPHERE
Phoenix, AZ
it appeared suddenly. It was a bright white orb and the light of it was dense. if i held my fingers out and closed an eye to try and squish it, it would have been around the size of a ping pong ball. it went forward very quickly and disappeared. we don’t thing it was within our atmosphere but it definitely wasn’t a shooting star or a meteor, there was no tail and it vanished. not behind trees or a mountain, into nowhere.
February 28, 2020 · 5:34 AM · LIGHT
Waddell, AZ
I watched from back patio as a long string of lights very evenly spaced traveled towards the southeast, estimate there were approximately 15 lights when I noticed them. All lights were the same brightness and stayed the same distance apart moving at the same speed. During the sighting my dogs refused to come out of the house while I watched.
February 28, 2020 · 5:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Glendale, AZ
more then 10-12 flying objects were seen in Glendale AZ on the morning of February 28 2020, I was preparing to go to work Around 5:30 am and went out to the car to put my coffee and my bag, my husband was in the kitchen. I place my bag in the car and I remembered that the night before the Moon and Venus would be close, I turned to the sky to see if I could see them and it got my attention a light that was passing I followed with my eye, I thought it was a satellite and then I see another one and another and many more were in line at the same distance and altitude, I started calling at my husband to come out and he saw it and could not believe it, we were amaze, they disappear in the sky there were going from north west to south ..
February 21, 2020 · 7:30 PM · OTHER
Scottsdale, AZ
I was traveling north on Hayden Rd. just after 7:30 pm on Friday, 21 February 2020 and making a right turn into the complex my mother lives in when I noticed what looked like a single engine plane banking down toward the intersection ahead of me. I stopped my truck just inside the driveway and watched out my open driver’s side window thinking I was about to witness a huge explosion. I was facing north and the thing(s) I witnessed were moving toward me and to the left, so southwest. It was already dark and all I could really see at first were lights. As I watched I realized there were two things happening: one looked to be a single engine plane turning down and left (so, eastward) and crashing in slow motion toward the intersection; the other thing looked to be the lights of a helicopter staying the original SW trajectory. The first object, as it was facing me during its turn, was visible only as (what looked like) the two FAA wingtip lights, except both were red. I could just barely make out a structure between the lights. It completed its turn and slowed in the air to almost a stop, pointing down at an angle toward the intersection. At this point I could make out a third red light behind the two, which showed me the angle. It wasn’t a completely side-on view, maybe ten degrees toward me. Suddenly the area between the two front lights looked like a bank of ten large flat screens, side by side, and they were alternating the purplish glow similar to a blacklight from the center out to the red lights at the tip, then back to center. I could count five pulses from center to tips, so I assume ten “screens”. It did this four or five times that I could count as it floated. The craft was barely moving forward at this point. It was pointing straight at the westbound traffic parked at the intersection and flashing this pattern in that type of blacklight that isn’t really visible straight on. I feel like I could only see the purplish glow because of the angle I was looking at it from. The second set of lights that looked like helicopter lights kept on coasting, and after that brief few seconds of purplish pulsing the first set of lights began to turn back toward me and rise. Then a car pulled into the drive behind me, almost hitting me, so I had to pull forward into the complex and park. I did this quickly and grabbed my binoculars (I use a crappy old tracfone, so I didn’t bother trying to get a picture with it). I stepped back toward Hayden Rd. and I could see the lights were already flying together again and had resumed the SW trajectory. I looked through my binoculars and I could see that the one set of lights was indeed a helicopter because there is so much ambient light from the ground below. The red lights that floated over the intersection were on what honestly looked like a huge flat triangular box, one on each corner. And it was moving flat side forward, counterintuitively for a flying triangular shape. After a few more seconds they were lost to the distance behind a big stand of palms. I got the impression that all three sides of this craft were the same kind of screens. And as it was floating over the intersection I was reminded of how a cuttlefish hunts, using pulsing color patterns to hypnotize prey. I asked the local community in many forums and face to face if anyone saw this and found nothing. I searched numerous times over the following months for some kind of advertisement craft that matched this and found nothing. It’s unidentified, but whatever it was it’s official SOMEWHERE because of that helicopter escort.
February 18, 2020 · 4:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Phoenix, AZ
Unfortunately we waited too long to report this that we are unsure of the date and time but it was approximately in February of 2020. We were traveling eastbound on the 101 and were on the exit ramp from the 101 onto northbound I-17. I was traveling with my spouse and I saw a single, large black or dark gray, tiered, rectangular object hovering over the area. The area it appeared to hover over was both residential and commercial. I thought to myself is that a balloon? But it clearly was not. The size was hard to judge as I was navigating through the narrow, concrete wall bordered exit ramp. If I had to guess, I’d say about 200’ to one city block. The one thing I remember was that it looked industrial. Almost like floors of a factory with metal railings. Once I quickly realized it was something I couldn’t explain, I asked my wife to look and see if she sees it. She did see it. I asked her what she saw and she described it as a “black object, multi tiered, just floating there.” She agrees with my potential size estimation. From where we were, we could only see it we curved around on the ramp and then we lost site of it as we proceeded onto I-17. It was not a balloon. It was not a helicopter. It was not a plane, as it was not moving. How long it remained visible in the location, I do not know.
February 18, 2020 · 8:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Tucson, AZ
Pulling up to my apartment and 5 unidentifiable objects shooting across the sky one went left one went right and two disappeared then all reappeared as happening davis air force base jets where going the same direction as the unidentifiable objects then a blacked out black ops plane came. This was all within ten minutes
February 17, 2020 · 9:55 PM · DISK
Prescott Valley, AZ
Observed a saucer-shaped object with curved lights moving and blinking-from left to right. The lights were whitish-yellow. It hovered for about 2 minutes or less then totally vanished after hovering. Sky was dark and fairly clear. Was in sky west of our home. Sound of humming shortly after it disappeared.
February 17, 2020 · 9:55 PM · OVAL
Prescott Valley, AZ
I was sitting in living room watching a movie. Our front door has a window at top. I noticed bright flashing coming through the window. I ran out front door and saw a bright object in western sky-seemed perhaps a mile or two out over the prairie. We live north of Prescott Valley on edge of prairie terrain. The object was oval, or circular in shape. There were white lights blinking and moving in circle around object. Object was much larger than normal airplane size-about twice-or three times size of what would be considered an airplane in night sky. Object veered to left, or southwest and just suddenly vanished. Night sky was quite clear with a few thin drifting clouds.
February 15, 2020 · 5:00 PM · LIGHT
Mesa, AZ
A hovercraft that would fade away when approached by other aircraft and reappears after. It has appeared multiple nights in the same spot
February 12, 2020 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Somerton, AZ
The last couple of months we have been seeing an object that hovers over the Somerton Airport and the surrounding Cocopah Tribe Land. It comes in almost every night at different times and flies back and forth slowly and then hovers for hours in different areas at a time. I believe it is round with faint red and green lights that pulse. There have been other similar objects on different occasions that fly by that one object at a faster pace or just hover next to it. There is one that flashes bright white lights for a few seconds and then disappears. I took a picture with my iphone of the one primary object but you can't tell what it is as it appears as a perfect round white bright light.
February 9, 2020 · 8:14 PM · LIGHT
Lake Havasu City, AZ
Was sitting next to an open window when noticed BRIGHT red (2) and pink (2) lights overhead and low, no more than twice the height of our 5 story building and making NO NOISE. The four lights were clustered together and moving slowly Southwesterly. After a few seconds and realizing this was not normal, ran into the Living Room and had wife open balcony door and we stepped outside where SHE then saw the lights as well. I pointed out there was no noise and we watched the lights move out over Lake Havasu and disappear. I commented that if it was a gliding plane we would see a crash as it was not high enough to clear the mountains on the CA side of the lake....no crash and we never saw the lights again. About 15 seconds of viewing, one needed to be either directly under the lights or within 1/4 to 1/2 mile to see the globular source and at a very low altitude. No noise to attract others' attention that may have had doors or windows open as well that 70F night. Three total (so far) reports of lights in the sky that eve with the local police dept.
February 9, 2020 · 7:45 PM · OTHER
Phoenix, AZ
Yesterday evening, February 9, 2020, around 7:45 pm, a bright orange light caught my peripheral vision, out of the window. I was watching tv, sitting on my bed facing roughly west and window is roughly south to my left. The room I am in is a little uniques in that it’s built on top of my patio, has an exterior only entry and has “no house around it”, ie; I am surrounded by windows. When I first saw this orange glow, that it looked so much like the orange and light of fire, I thought I might be looking at a paper lantern. I followed it as it went in a generally northwest direction. I saw it through a small window on the east side of this room. I took a picture of it through my window and screen and the orange is visible in this photo. Less so in the others and 3 second video. I raced outside, naked mind you and with my phone and it’s still proceeding in same nw direction and then I see another coming along after. This continued for a total of 5 maybe more. Each one a very vivid orange, no visible fuselage, wings, red, green, white or strobing lights, and as bright as fire. But no flames. Also no engine noise. I took 2 other photos, one of which the shape of one is like a perfect capsule, but in the vertical. It is my intention to get the Center the 3 photos and 3 second video (!) but I lack technical expertise and it may take a bit! I thank you for speaking with me and for accepting this report. I sure would love to learn what it was I saw.
February 7, 2020 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Gilbert, AZ
Craft appeared over the east valley towards the Superstition Mountains. The craft hovered over the eastern sky and then disappeared. I have the video.
February 7, 2020 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Rimrock, AZ
Several lights moving in unison. could be one large craft. not planes.
February 5, 2020 · 10:20 PM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
They were flying in a formation heading north east in the sky until all but one were out of sight. The last fireball headed east as it got smaller traveling at a fast rate.
February 2, 2020 · 5:05 PM · OVAL
Mesa, AZ
This object was a silver oval that was sitting on the top of a mountain (possibly Dome MT.) in the Tonto National Forest, to the southeast of Bush highway. I was watching the Super Bowl on my phone with money on KC. The game was still in the first q. But we entered the short stretch of Bush Highway where data networks can't reach. So I was able to enjoy the natural beauty of this stretch of road. The visibility was unlimited-crystal clear afternoon desert skies. Far off in the distance at elevation, a glint of silver caught my eye. My first thought was of an old-style Airstream trailer. But there is no way any type of vehicle could have been up there. It was sitting in an odd spot, not quite at the top of the peak but on a small outcropping just below. It's extremely rugged terrain on foot-let alone for anything heavy. No windows, no struts, no markings. Just a seamless silver oval-not moving. The driver of the vehicle confirmed that he could see it as well and we both agreed on the description. We also concurred that it was impossible for a vehicle to be present at that location. We were able to observe it for less than five minutes as the road took us out of its view.
February 2, 2020 · 11:45 AM · OTHER
Chandler, AZ
Saw a small light in the sky similar to an airplane light but it did not seem move at all. Used binoculars (20 x 56) to see and it was a yellow parachute with a smaller chute off the back. Then a few very small specs not really visible with the naked eye (smaller yellow chutes) came into view. After some time more and more until there were maybe 150 to 200 or more with about 5 or 6 of the larger yellow chutes scattered about. The scattered pattern didn't change but all very slowly moved southward and not downward. It wasn't in a straight line either. Could not see what was at the bottom of the chutes.
January 31, 2020 · 7:57 PM · UNKNOWN
Arizona City, AZ
I witnessed two blinking lights several hundred yards away. I videoed them and watched them after I turned the video off and they tilted to to the right and pulled away. The lights were blinking in sequence alternating between right and left. A plane does not do this with it's light as they are either a rotating beacon or a strobe. Also notice there are no navigation lights (green and red). I mentioned this in the video. I could go on with details but MUFON already said they can't identify them but they are man made. I will be happy to send the letter they sent me.
January 31, 2020 · 7:56 PM · UNKNOWN
Arizona City, AZ
I witnessed these lights over a neighbors house. Not sure how far away they were. Once I saw them I went back into the house and got my phone. I started videoing the lights. I narrated the video. I caught other aircraft but they all had navigation lights. If you notice the angle of the lights change and I am in the same spot. There is a block fence in front of me that you can see at the bottom of the video. I have no idea what this is and MUFON said it was man made. Maybe but the explanation they gave was weak at best. I have over 40 years in aviation and I can't explain the lights.
January 30, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Mesa, AZ
On January 30, 2020 around 2200 hours, I was in the whirlpool at Sun Life RV Park located at University Driver and Higley Road in Mesa AZ. Looking skyward I noticed a commercial passenger jet (I don’t recall the name of the airline) moving on a heading from the SE to the NW apparently heading for the Sky Harbor airport. I then noticed an aircraft heading from the NE to the SW. The aircraft passed underneath the passenger jet in very close proximity which I thought was close to a near miss. The second aircraft approached my position and flew directly overhead. The aircraft did not display any red/green running lights nor any strobe lights. Neither did I observe any lights which would have appeared in the cockpit area. The only lights I saw was two vertical bright white lights and the end of what would have been the ends of a fixed winged aircraft. The lights were positioned as follows: O O O O I heard the engine noise of the passenger jet but did not hear any other sounds as the second aircraft passed overhead. After the aircraft was downrange the configuration of the lights remained the same. In other words the aircraft lights appeared the same coming at me and going away from me. In the darkness I could only see the lights. I could not see an outline of the aircraft. I called Sky Harbor and was transferred to someone possibly in the control tower and explained what I observed. He said he would review the radar recording. Subsequent attempts to reach anyone for a follow-up conversation proved fruitless.
January 20, 2020 · 7:20 PM · CIRCLE
Gilbert, AZ
At 1920 p.m. I witnessed a green circle light with a red light attached flying from west to east. It made no sound. Suddenly it stopped abruptly. Immediately, it flew perpendicularly straight up. Then immediately traveled in a Southern Direction. Curved gently around to head West. Flew West for approximately 3 seconds and then stopped and flu abruptly perpendicularly up again. It then flew off quickly to the South where I could no longer see it. My husband said perhaps it was a drone. I just thought I should report it