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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
December 11, 2017 · 7:05 PM · EGG
Gold Canyon, AZ
I heard a very loud jet engine when I was sitting on the couch. I ran outside to check it out, it was already dark outside. I could not see any jets or lights, but i could still hear roaring jet engine sounds. Within 30 seconds I saw a dim light low in the sky to the East appear. It grew brighter and larger quickly until it was about half the size of the moon in the sky. Bright orange light seemed to be coming from inside the object and shining out of windows or portals. Specifically, the light was coming from the center and each side of the object and between the lights it was dark as if the light was blocked by something structural. Within a few seconds another identical object appeared near (to the left and slightly below) the first, in the same manner. The second object appeared to be vibrating while the other was very still. After about 10 seconds of being very bright, both lights dimmed till they could not be seen. The roaring jet sounds continued! , and my wife finally came outside to see (I had been yelling at her to come out). Several (at least two, but I think more) jets with no lights flew around the area dropping flares for the next 20-30 minutes. The flares lasted about 3-4 seconds each time and were dropped in clusters of 3-4. The jets could barely be seen, very dimly reflecting starlight or moonlight. It has been 11 days and the jets have not returned, and we have never seen them perform this activity in this area before.
December 11, 2017 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
Queen Creek/South Gilbert, AZ
Saw orange reddish orbs moving from queen creek west towards south Gilbert. Very bright in the shy, Chandler Heights rd and Higley. Amazing event.
November 26, 2017 · 6:15 PM · OVAL
Phoenix, AZ
Then tracked North East. When tracked NE it shot out small bright spheres in all directions. Some of the spheres close to the craft made a dancing movement.
November 26, 2017 · 4:35 PM · CHANGING
Phoenix, AZ
Strange red/orange object in day sky. No trails left behind it. Appeared to be floating horizontally, then stopped for awhile, then moved North. Very high in the sky. Visible along with Moon. The shape was hard to discern. It appeared to be red in the middle with an orange glow around it. Appeared like a cross at one point and seemed to be rotating. Witness provides no contact information. PD
November 25, 2017 · 8:48 PM · SPHERE
Phoenix, AZ
11-25-2017 at 20:45hrs. My girlfriend was in the backyard with our dog when she noticed 2 sphere shaped objects in the eastern sky. We live in central Phoenix close to the downtown business district. She came inside to make me aware of the lights in the sky, as we’ve seen other before, just in different areas. I came outside to see the spheres/circles. They were indeed illuminating multiple colors of green, blue, red, gold, white, and lavender, much unlike a plane. As these two spheres were perfectectly still, they were perfectly aligned between 3 vertical stars, which my girl thought might be Orion’s Belt, I begged to differ. I don’t think she’s right. It’s 8:56pm right now here in Phoenix, and the lights have now been there for 30 minutes. You all should take a look in the eastern sky. IT’S AMAZING !!!! This is one of many sightings in Phoenix we’ve witnessed.
November 24, 2017 · 7:43 AM · SPHERE
Tucson, AZ
Sighting is the second in 20+ years same position. sighting was witnessed 20+ years ago by myself and two other individuals. Object was stationary. Object was photographed by myself against a steel blue sky. Object is orb white or siver. approximate altitude 50k feet . angle of Object 000 deg. (12:00) high.
November 24, 2017 · 4:00 AM · TEARDROP
Scottsdale, AZ
Once we were clearly in sight of the object, the lights went out. There were a lot of stars out so once the headlights went out we could see the outline of it. The shape of it was a triangle you with curves.
November 17, 2017 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
North Phoenix, AZ
I have a video but poor quality.
November 16, 2017 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Maricopa, AZ
Tonight is the 3rd time I've seen these lights in the sky. I commute home from Scottsdale each day. I exit from the I 10 and I continue on the 347, a stretch of highway that enters into Maricopa City. Between Riggs road and Maricopa city, I will see these glowing lights in the sky directly above Maricopa or maybe further south but its in plain view as they are directly over the 347. I am positive other drivers heading home can see them also. The 1st time I witnessed, it looked like a Military flare, this caused for me to take my eyes from the road to the horizon, but then the orange color got brighter, hotter and pulsated. The light then disappears, a second later I saw that light to the east, it looked to be maybe over Queencreek?, the light was faint and then it started to glow brighter till it disappeard again. 2nd event was the day before Halloween, all the conditions are the same excepts the time was maybe 30 mins early around 730pm. I saw the orange fireball, but this time I can see it transfer a small amount of light into and another orange ball. This went across a large portion of the sky till 5 orange balls were attached to each other. Maybe the length of a few miles, then all the lights together increased in brightness then went out. Tonight at @845pm I saw the same 5 lights off to the east they flashed and them disappeared. Most people never see anything crazy in the sky. I am now seeing them on the reg. My guess is they are coming from Barry Goldwater base and the Gov has some pretty bad azz toys, but who really knows. Going to keep my phone handy and try too get some footage next time it's happens. I'm also glad other people are seeing them, makes me feel alot better about posting on the crazy UFO site. Wish me luck
November 15, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CHEVRON
Dewey, AZ
The craft blinked on out of no where. Clear sky. They blinked on one by one. There were multiple lights on the Vee-shape. The event lasted just under 10 seconds and one by one they blinked out. Disappeared. Five minutes later three Military jets showed up in the same spot. They were traveling at a high rate of speed. Upon reaching the location they made a U-Turn and flew back towards the Northwest. The craft were BIG! BRIGHT! And BEAUTIFUL! They resembled The Phoenix Lights. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Hello Peter, I have not has a chance to check the link as to what happened in Phoenix last night but I did check a few minutes ago. It was a meteor. I do allot of night sky photography up here on the mountain and I am familiar with all the atmospheric distortion and tricks the night sky can play on you. I am also an Engineer who is prone to logic, science and rationality. I have seen many things in the night sky. From Iridium satellites to meteors to space junk so I have a very good understanding of what is naturally and what is not. I am working on the drawing for you now. Here is the link to what happened in Phoenix last night but it is just a meteor. http://theweek.com/speedreads/737519/what-strange-light-over-phoenix-last-night Regards, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
November 15, 2017 · 9:00 PM · FORMATION
Chandler, AZ
Usual planes flying in for landing @ sky harbor & then the whole sky above south mountain lit up like a Christmas tree while walking dog. There was 4-5 silver lights blinking & began synchronizing with each other & 3 were in a triangle! Wondering if anyone else saw it!
November 14, 2017 · 10:30 PM · FIREBALL
Tucson, AZ
At the Thornydale and Orange Grove intersection, a friend and I had met up for dinner plans and were saying our goodbyes, when all of a sudden, we both saw a massive blue light streaking down and blinking. It appeared to be about the size of an average helicopter, and was blinking fairly rapidly as it fell to the East. After about 10 seconds of watching it “fall,” the object disappeared in a flash of blue light that remained for a second or two more to illuminate the sky above. My friend and I both sat in stunned silence for a few moments before regaling each other on what we saw, and both of our accounts matched perfectly. There was no other activity going on at the time.
November 14, 2017 · 8:25 PM · FLASH
San Tan Valley, AZ
A bright light that lit up the entire skyline for a brief 2 maybe 3 secs, follow by a dot shooting up northeast into the sky... I've never seen anything like this before... wow! Possible meteor?? PD
November 12, 2017 · 10:00 AM · RECTANGLE
Chino Valley, AZ
I was traveling south on route 89 towards Chino Valley, Arizona. It was approximately 10a.m. on November 12, 2017. There were some clouds. I saw a very large bluish white vertically oriented rectangle in the sky. It was a very defined rectangle. It was stationary, to the south of my vehicle and stayed stationary there for about 5 minutes. It was about 45% above the horizon and then it just was not there anymore. I am a science teacher and have done biological research.
November 11, 2017 · 1:26 PM · CIRCLE
Tucson, AZ
We were stopped at an intersection, headed East on Ina Rd. could see a bright object to the left coming from the direction of Sabin Canyon over the Foothills area of Tucson. It appeared cigar shaped and bright. It did not move like a plane, seemed slower and have not seen planes traveling in that direction before. Thought it may have been ISS. I took a photo of it. Upon examination of the photo, I could see it was two separate circles and not the shape of ISS, a plane, or anything I could recognize.
November 8, 2017 · 2:45 AM · FIREBALL
Phoenix, AZ
Saw what it looked like a shooting star, but it was red.
November 5, 2017 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Gilbert, AZ
I saw about 10 lights flighing close together across the sky. I was facing East and they were traveling North. About three of the lights were flying pretty close together almost like a diagonal line and the others were flying together as well, but it almost looked like they were forming a triangular shape. I took videos and a picture. I live not too far from an airport and I also saw and heard air planes flying around that time but these didn’t look or sound like planes. In the video I took you can see the lights flying across and a plane passing so you can tell the difference. It appears no one else has reported the sighting. I have emailed my video to ABC news and posted it on their Facebook, but didn’t seem like a big deal.
November 5, 2017 · 6:15 PM · DISK
Snowflake (toward; near), AZ
When I ran to get binoculars, the friend that was with me, saw 3 of them. Looking through the binoculars, I could see they were continuing to change formation. Before running to get a camera, the last I saw of the front one was that it took off in high gear at a very steep angle upward (nearly straight up). By the time I came back with a camera, they were gone. What was REALLY eerie is that this exact date was the 42nd anniversary of Travis Walton being abducted by a UFO near Snowflake. Creepy for sure! I am not even a person that believed in alien UFO's, but what other explanation is there?
November 4, 2017 · 9:20 PM · FORMATION
Glendale, AZ
Witnessed seven large circular lights moving eastward very slowly over the sky at Utopia & 68th Ave in Glendale, AZ, approximately 9:20 PM (AZ time zone) on the night of Saturday, November 4th, 2017. We the lights them for approximately a 45-second duration before they disappeared. Could easily tell they were not airplanes- there was no noise and they did not look like airplanes that flew by in same spot after they disappeared. We live under a flight path, so definitely would know if lights were from airplanes. These were not airplanes! They seemed to make somewhat of a V formation. We took two photos and one short video that caught they tail end of the sighting. Only 3 to 4 lights appear in the photos but visible to our eyes there were approximately seven. The light pattern moved slowly, silently, and lights were all in unison with each other as if belonging to one large flying or several that were somehow traveling in a geometric formation at the same speed and altitude. The formation appeared similar to a V, but was not a perfect V showing all the points.
November 3, 2017 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE
Bullhead City, AZ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 29, 2017 · 7:00 PM · OVAL
Fountain Hills, AZ
These craft are seen several nights per week over McDowell mountain park in the area that borders the north west corner of the town of Fountain Hills and the Eastern slopes of the McDowell Mountains. This area is very dark with virtually no light polution. Any resident living in this area that borders the park can or has seen them, their are perhaps 100 homes in the area that back up to the park. One simple explanation might be the Apache Longbow helicopter manufacturing plant about 15 miles south of the park I have seen them their many times running in silent mode, this is a test area for them, however day's and times of testing can be verified. These craft don't move like a helicopter and and have no visible rotors, when viewed with night vision equipment they are longer and more oval shaped and they disappear straight up or at an angle and disappear out of sight in seconds, they have no visable exterior lights, they are just black objects against the night sky, they rarely ever appear on nights when the moon shines bright. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 17, 2017 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
Facing North on roof top near Sky Harbor air port to the NW orange/yellow Orb dropped out of the sky and stopped about 100ft high then moved to the north toward Camelback Mountain. There was no sound or air movement. Lost site after a min behind a wall walked around wall and did not see any craft on that same course. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 7, 2017 · 8:15 PM · TRIANGLE
Chandler, AZ
We saw 2 lights that seemed to be a helicopter but we didn't hear any noise. There was no flashing wing or tail light. Just an orangish light. I was going to take a picture or movie with my phone, but didn't think of it fast enough.
October 6, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CYLINDER
Yuma, AZ
Driving West of Yuma on I 8 headed to Calexico, Ca, I looked to my left and visibly could see a flashing Red lite blinking and a white lite flashing flying rite beside my husband's head out the window! We both have spotted several Drones small & Big in the last month or so Every where and in 4 different States now with our Company OTR Truck Drivers, so this wasn't new so I took several pictures this time! We decided to take our break on the exit ahead to scope this all out !! Being fascinated with the sky started looking harder more frequently at this point of the evening and discovered for 100% positive that were actually getting to see either Border Patrol or our nation's government at their finest of the latest Border Wall or something and 3 weird shaped brute lite even a dull kill orange disc looking object above them 1 looked to be a really fast darting object and a real big circle lite zooming in and out of distance from me and 1 object with a round brut! e lite that turns off & on periodically at me that stayed way up in the sky all evening ! The moon was very big and brute all nite and we could see everything that was moving above clearly ! Today I am very skeptical of what my husband and I Both saw last nite and I am not hesitant to say that more Reports of this activity will be filed with the proper authorities today .