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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
July 9, 2019 · 9:25 PM · FIREBALL
Safford, AZ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 9, 2019 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Pomerene, AZ
Six strange lights in a “W” formation flashing several variation of colors began to do sporadic movements in the sky. They divided into sets of two, some going north, some going south and some going west. At some point 2 of them shot back towards the east and then joined into one orbit and then simply vanished. Approximately 15 minutes later two very large red orbs appeared flashing simultaneously. They were several miles apart but clearly at the exact same height and very much in sync! Then disappeared as if to just fade away.
July 8, 2019 · 2:15 AM · CIRCLE
Scottsdale, AZ
It was about 2:15am to 2:30am I look up in the skies over Scottsdale there was this glowing white ball of light that stay stationary.. For approximately 15 min.. It was not a star,plane because I keep looking at it didn't move..I went inside and when I came out it had completely disappeared..I did take pictures of the object.
July 5, 2019 · 8:50 PM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
Around 8:50-8:55 there were LOTS of lights falling from the sky. I was driving with my fiancé from Cottonwood to Mesa, and I believe I was on the 101, traveling south, somewhere between the 51, and the 202. I noticed the first, and brightest, of all of the objects, and quickly woke my fiancé so that he could see it as well. At first, it looked like a huge falling star/firework (bright flaming rock with a sparkling tail), but it lasted a really long time (around 20 seconds), and it’s flight pattern was weird. It was falling straight down for about 6 seconds, then shot right back up (2-3 seconds), fell down again in a zigzag pattern (2-3 seconds), shot straight up again (2-3 seconds), then made a hard right turn in the middle of the sky and travelled a little ways (about 3-4 seconds) before burning out. I told my fiancé to grab his phone and start filming, and he tried but said that the camera wasn’t picking them up very well, but I kept insisting that he try. Seconds after the first light disappeared, it was followed by another similar light that originated out of nowhere, high in the sky, but must have been at least 3 miles apart as the crow flies. Then another one appeared in the opposite direction. Then another miles apart, and so on. No rhyme or reason to where they appeared. There must have been at least six of these lights back to back, and all popping up in random places, miles apart. . Meanwhile, there were LOTS of planes/jets that looked like they were circling the area. At first (for a very brief second), I was thinking that maybe they were some sort of flare… but flares last for a while (about 5-10 minutes), and hover in one place before burning out. I’ve seen plenty of flares from the Gila Bend Air Force while living in Ajo, and those flares are completely different than the lights that we saw. Even the colors differ. The last one was really strange. It dropped down SUPER low (about fifty feet above some houses), and then, before hitting the ground, it leveled out, turned right, and coasted above the houses for a few seconds until it fizzled out. That would have been the perfect one to catch on camera, but unfortunately, when my fiancé tried to view the video afterwards, he realized he hadn’t been filming whatsoever. I did some research, and there were similar reports in Florida the day before, and they were saying that it could possibly be remnants of a Chinese rocket… But since when did remnants have a mind of their own and move up, down, and sideways? (( Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)
July 4, 2019 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Scottsdale, AZ
I walked outside of my shed in my back yard only to look up and north to see what looked like a shooting star. It was a round bright ball with a trailing effect behind it. I then saw two more appear. They began dancing around the sky in this one area I first saw them. Moving sporadically and they would disappear and come back. They appeared to be in a triangle formation moving around from side to side. They looked to be dancing all with this trail following them across the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 30, 2019 · 11:19 PM · DISK
Oro Valley, AZ
Three days after first sighting of UF0, I saw disk shaped UFO in a different area over mountains. It was rather large. Close together smaller circular lights at the center. It was rotating but hovering or moving very slowly. Suddenly, each light strung like pearls on a necklace went out in rapid succession before either disappearing or going completely dark.
June 27, 2019 · 11:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Oro Valley, AZ
Light seen high over Catalina Mountains. Object moved horizontal from left to right from my vantage point. Object suddenly changed course, making a sharp turn at high rate of speed from right to left from my vantage point where it disappeared leaving a streak like the tail of a meteor only it’s trajectory was horizontal.
June 27, 2019 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Gold Canyon, AZ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 24, 2019 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Flagstaff, AZ
Standing on line to look through the main telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, several of us in the crowd observed a bright light in the night sky. It would shine for a few seconds, disappear then reappear a few seconds later in a different but nearby spot. The pattern seamed random and most people thought it was an conventional aircraft. I have spent decades around aviation, from propeller to jet to rockets and space shuttles. I know of no aircraft or natural phenomenon that could maneuver, disappear and reappear like this object. I observed the event 10-20 minutes.
June 19, 2019 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Phoenix, AZ
I was near Union Hills Rd and Tatum Blvd, I parked my car in front of a house facing east and when I got out of my driver’s side, I looked due North/Northwest and saw a diagonal string of 3 lights very low in the sky, with a fourth light further along the string with some space in between the 4th light and the other 3, as my video clearly depicts. I was in a hurry dropping something off and assumed they were planes, but when ingot back to my car, before I drove off I took a quick video of it because I thought wow you don’t usually see planes or aerial activity in this vicinity, since I was well north of Sky Harbor Airport by some 12 miles and these lights were well North of Scottsdale airport which would’ve been about 7-8 miles east of my location. I saw a plane off in the distance but was pretty far away from the lights. Even though I didn’t look at them for very long, considering the time I looked upon parking my car as well as looking at them when I got back in my car to depart, the lights didn’t move. They might’ve been flares but they were definitely white in color and shined and how a glare/glow to them, unlike the 1997 Phoenix Lights that didn’t glare or produce a corona. There was no sound but I was very far away, maybe 3-4 miles. The 3 lights were very low in the sky, I cannot estimate how low but trees were blocking my vantage point. And single light that was highest in the sky was maybe 5-10k fest high (?), hard to estimate. Please refer to my video, sorry it is so short.
June 18, 2019 · 10:00 PM · CIGAR
Oak Creek/Sedona, AZ
While renting a private home in the Oak Creek village of Sedona, I wanted to go outside and look at the stars. They say their much brighter here at night. It was approximately 10:30 PM I was in the back yard looking up at the galaxy of stars that was truly amazing. I saw a shooting star right off. My eyes were drawn to a perfect triangle of 3 stars way out in the galaxy. They were twinkling. I thought it was unique enough to want to try and take a picture of the triangle of stars, thinking they probably wouldn’t even show up using my iPhone. I used 2X zoom. I did not see this object until I looked at the photo afterwards. First you see the hedges/bushes separating the neighbors house behind ours. That's their porch light lower center. Then their treetops. Above that you see a cigar shaped UFO at an unusual angle. I was excited. This is the actual untouched photo. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 16, 2019 · 12:12 AM · FLASH
Phoenix, AZ
Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
June 11, 2019 · 1:45 AM · CIGAR
Surprise, AZ
At 01:45 hrs., I was feeding my horses, I was done with that and went beside my house, I was talking to my niece through her window and noticed a clicking sound coming from a outside automatic light that does not work, it sets almost to the apex of the house, so I was looking directly straight up. When I did, I noticed a bright white flash, it was so bright that it was like someone flashed a flash bulb point blank in my face. I tried to focus on that part of sky again looking in that general area and about 5 seconds later another blinding flash with a pulsing coming from the exact same light, as it was pulsing I got a pretty good view that it seemed to be cigar shaped and really super high. The pulsing stopped and then it was super hard to see because of how high it was but, I kept looking in that direction and noticed a commercial jetliner going the same direction but I did not want to lose where I saw this object. Then, again it flashed really bright, this time I had a little perspective as it started to pulse again and the jetliner that I saw earlier was approximately 4 miles away traveling the same direction as the object, the jet was way further than the object so the object was traveling super slow and much, much higher. The object stopped pulsing and it was again very difficult to see. I tried to adjust my eyes to the speed that the object was travelling at and noticed it pulsing again, this time it did not flash but again travelling super slow. Like half blimp speed if that makes any sense! The object was moving west to east, I watched it pulsing then go dark, then pulsing, and going dark. I watched this for approximately 8 more minutes, but I went in the house because I was having trouble seeing it anymore! I have never seen anything like this before. I know it wasn't any airplane, as airplanes have other colored lights that blink, this did not have any lights like that. I know it was not a satellite because I have seen those and they shine and move fast and when they get out of the sun's light they slowly disappear. A weather balloon while it could possibly move that slow, it could not have produced that bright white light that flashed and seriously blinded me for a couple of seconds and they do not have lights that pulse. I was the only one who saw this, I do not have any photos or video of it, actually I was so astonished that it was like I was paralyzed trying to make sense of what I saw.
June 10, 2019 · 9:10 PM · OTHER
Elfrida, AZ
When the craft headed due south and crossed into Mexican airspace it appeared that there were additional fighters attempting to engage the craft numbering in the dozens.
June 9, 2019 · 2:30 PM · LIGHT
Scottsdale, AZ
At 14:30, out of the east by the face moon in the sky, 7 objects appeared in formation. Just north of these objects, three more lights were in the sky. All the same light. It did last long but they were bright and in formation. The former various shapes: squares, rectangles and the Orion's Belt. They broke off and proceeded overhead until no longer visible. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 6, 2019 · 9:25 PM · CIRCLE
Gilbert, AZ
Cluster of 6 very bright blue lights heading from west to southeast, followed shortly by one more. Camera only picked up the bright blue lights, but visually I saw what looked like a balloon or some other object with the blue light hanging below it, maybe 20-50 from a cable feet. Could be a school or festival event, but the object were traveling far faster than cars on a freeway. Light breeze, but objects were traveling at least 60 Mph if not faster. No sound from the lights. Passed overhead maybe at least 200 feet.
June 3, 2019 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Patagonia, AZ
On the evening of 3 June, 2019, 3 adults, a 10-year old and a 6-year old observed 4 craft hover and maneuver over the town of Patagonia, Arizona, for 2 hours. The evening was dark (new moon), no haze and cloudless. You could see the streak of the Milky Way arcing through the sky. The sighting started at around 2030, my Mom and I were sitting in the back yard talking. All of a sudden, my Mom exclaimed, "Look at that Airliner!" I turned, and looking east-southeast towards Red Mountain, was a light traversing from left to right, about 30-degrees above the horizon. At first glance, it would be easily be mistaken for an aircraft strobe...but the flash pattern was too fast, almost flickering. As we looked, the craft slowed, stopped, and then started moving the exact opposite direction. I ran to the fence, and as I watched, it slowed and started hovering. Perfectly motionless. I called my Mom to go get my Cousins and to bring binoculars. About 30 seconds later, she arrived at the fence with my Older cousin, her two kids, aged 10 and 6, and the binoculars. Looking through the binoculars, I observed a large red ball-like light on the right with two flickering/strobing lights to left. While I was looking, the ball changed color from red to blue, and started moving straight up. All of us exclaimed in amazement. After moving up for 5 seconds, it moved left, stopped and hovered, and then started moving in random motions, frequently stopping to hover motionlessly for up to 30 seconds at a time. At this time, my 10-year old cousin yelled, "There's another one!". Looking to the left, there was another craft like the first one, moving towards the first. I then asked my older cousin to try and record with her phone camera. As the night was very dark, all she could pick up was the intense strobe. After about 30 minutes of the two craft maneuvering, 2 more appeared. These 4 craft moved all over the sky, stopping and hovering, moving in diagonals, and going straight up in the air to very high altitudes. They would cycle through many colors: Red, Blue, Orange, Green, White and Purple. My Mom observed a slight aura or haze around the objects, which I couldn't see. Object number #1 at times stopped, and the "colored" ball moved to the center of a ring of lights that flashed in sequential pattern, then reconfigured to the Ball left/flashing lights right pattern. There was no noise of jet engines or helicopter blades the entire time. At times, my 10-year old cousin actually sat in the grass to watch these things. These were not meteors, satellites, drones or aircraft (planes/helicopters). I am an IT specialist, US Army veteran with a hobby of photographing aircraft. These were not normal aircraft.
June 3, 2019 · 9:30 AM · DIAMOND
Oro Valley, AZ
On 6/3/19 at approximately 9 pm, two women were outside. An object in the sky caught their attention. It was a large diamond shaped glowing object that seemingly had large ray like objects surrounding it. It was stationary thru out the night.
May 31, 2019 · 8:35 PM · CIRCLE
Mesa, AZ
I saw a bright light in the southern sky. I grabbed my phone and shot the video as it head east northeast.
May 29, 2019 · 9:20 AM · RECTANGLE
Phoenix, AZ
The object moved across the sky in a matter of seconds towards the jet. It followed the jet from behind for a few seconds. It then moved at high speed to the east and disappeared.
May 28, 2019 · 6:00 PM · CHEVRON
Camp Verde, AZ
Earlier in the day, about 14:00, we noticed numerous streaks across the sky similar see when the military test fires missiles. A short time later the sky was completely covered with chemtrails. The sky was completely clear when suddenly odd looking clouds began to cover the entire sky. Part of the sky looked as though an atomic bomb had gone off. My wife and I were sitting in the backyard. We live atop a large hill with views of Sedona to the left and old salt mines facing us. We suddenly saw 1, than 3 than 6 total gleaming chevron shaped objects. I am a former Navy pilot and have never seen a military aircraft or formation like this. They kept grouping in a circle then rapidly gathered closely together only to spread out again repeatedly. This lasted about an hour than they simply disappeared at the same time in a flash. The weird clouds than the UFO's left us feeling very unsettled. Possibly advertising lights?? PD
May 28, 2019 · 1:00 AM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix 1 am two sets of what appeared as red lights changed formation for several minutes; then one formation moved north and vanished. Their color appears pulsating many colors on video.
May 25, 2019 · 9:20 PM · OTHER
Quartzsite, AZ
I was with my boyfriend near Crystal Hill outside of Quartzsite last night. When we got out of our vehicle to camp, he looked shocked and told me to look up at the sky. What it looked like was a perfect line of stars moving across the sky in a straight line. It was about 7-15 small stars in length and there was light hitting the stars illuminating only 3-4 at a time. The perfectly straight line of stars moved slower than a meteor/ shooting star and kept moving across the sky. It seemed faster than a satellite. Basically it looked like mini space ships/stars following each other. The light beam I mentioned earlier would hit a couple of groupings of the stars at a time and followed it as it when across the sky. This happened at 9:20pm between the pan handle of the Big Dipper and Arcturus, but closer to Arcturus. It went in between these and kept going in a straight line. Space Link satellites. PD
May 25, 2019 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
North Rim, AZ
At 9:00pm Arizona time myself and the 5 people I was camping with saw a strange light formation crawl across a clear night sky. It was many lights of varying brightness and size crawling across the sky in a line. The rest of the camping trip we called it the "space worm" because it almost looked like some kind of glowing deep sea worm full of lights. 5 of us saw it and we even woke up the 6th person to make sure we weren't just seeing things. The only thing we could think of that wouldn't be too crazy is possibly a huge line of satellites, but they were moving to naturally and were much larger and brighter than the other satellites we had seen during the night. It moved like it was alive and some of it's lights blinked on and off with a few trailing behind until it went over the horizon line. String of Space Link satellites. PD