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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, 2017 · 4:00 AM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
It seemed still at first, but with closer watch it seemed to sort of sway. I thought maybe it was a weather balloon for Davis Monthan AFB, but it wasn't there the night before and it isn't there tonight. I will check again periodically tonight although. The light stayed there the whole drive home so as soon as I got home, I ran inside and told someone to come see. They witnessed the extreme brightness and that it was still but sort of swaying from left to right. The light became harder and harder to look at, we both said it sort of burned our eyes. I experienced a very mild sense of vertigo and nausea. They didn't know what to think other than it may have something to do with the AFB. The light stayed the whole time we watched, we didn't know what to think of it and went back inside. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 13, 2017 · 3:45 AM · LIGHT
Tucson/Sierra Vista (Interstate 10), AZ
Driving east on interstate 10 Tucson to Sierra Vista a single light, star like but bigger. Appeared to hover mostly, however at times appear to move? It might have been a drone. Whatever it was, it visible the whole trip home (75+ miles). Not sure what it was. I took video of it on my cell phone. Probably Venus, we suspect. PD
May 12, 2017 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Mesa, AZ
We were near 4 peaks and Saguaro Lake. Looking into the cliffs. This appeared and definitely did not move like a plane or heli. We watched for a few minutes and got a pic. When zoomed in, it is an arch shape. Red/orange in color. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 12, 2017 · 8:05 PM · FIREBALL
Surprise, AZ
My husband and I saw a round red flame light ball, no sound at all, gliding across the sky.
May 11, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CHANGING
Apache Junction, AZ
The one to the west kept flying up and down--back and forth--like it was playing. This went on for a good 10 minutes then it finally went down into the brush and I could no longer see it. The one hovering above the mountain range disappeared behind the mountain. I got back on the road went two miles, turned right and looked to the west and there was another one hovering over a house.
May 10, 2017 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
I have a view to flight path of Sky Harbor airport and often watch incoming planes from my upper deck. On this day, I noticed a rose/pink colored orb in the area where planes are normally in a holding pattern. I watched it head south in my direction, then made an ubrupt turn to east (opposite direction from airport) and watched until it disappeared. I then looked back to where I originally saw this, and saw two more coming! I ran downstairs to get binoculars and by the time I got back upstairs, those two orbs went into same pattern/direction as the previous one. Then, again, two more come into view - from the same direction and eventually disappeared into the eastern sky. I did manage to get a picture. I didn't know what to make of it, but what I find most interesting that no planes landed or were in holding during this time. Once the orbs were gone, planes were again in view and started landing. Very strange.
May 7, 2017 · 2:50 AM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Then, as I watched it, it was actually moving slowly across the sky. I watched it move from the northeast to the south with tiny wobbling movements I don't know what could be that high and cover that much space so quickly. I've seen the ISS and it is lower and quicker with no wobbles. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 6, 2017 · 10:00 PM · DIAMOND
Goodyear, AZ
I can't believe no one else is seeing this activity. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 6, 2017 · 8:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Phoenix, AZ
I live in Central Phoenix, I was looking up at Moon, its location was straight up directly over my head. I then noticed a "star"moving I was looking to the East. Then I noticed that the "Star" Was actually 3 separate lights in a isosceles triangle shape and appeared to be a HUGE craft. I noticed many neighbor hood dogs where barking, It was heading southeast and lights slowly dimmed as it moved away. I didn't hear any type of propulsion or any unusual sounds coming from sky. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) No, I did not see any type of craft structure. However, lights did all move together as one object! Thanks for replying so quickly! Sincerely, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM))
May 5, 2017 · 4:30 AM · CIRCLE
Surprise, AZ
It was the size of a razor head. Didn't move much and kept changing colors, but mostly white looking. Spinning in curlicues well it looked like it. I took lots of good pictures.
May 5, 2017 · 3:00 AM · CIRCLE
El Mirage, AZ
While letting my dog out, a very bright white circle of light appeared suddenly in the sky. It seemed very low like small plane or helicopter height, but was brighter than anything I have seen before. It almost immediately began moving rapidly in a straight northeast direction, never diminishing in size or brightness but with a bright orange "tail" trailing it and passing directly over my house. It seemed to be decending, dropping out of view over the roof but was gone by the time I ran to the other side of the house.
May 4, 2017 · 9:27 PM · CIRCLE
Phoenix, AZ
Orange glowing sphere flew across the sky at speeds comparable to an aircraft but close enough to see it was round. Did not shift speed or direction with wind currents. We have amended the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting. However, the witness provides no contact information, so we are unable to verify that the time is correct. PD
May 4, 2017 · 6:30 PM · TEARDROP
Phoenix, AZ
Looking to th east at about 2:00, I saw what I thought were to large birds moving south to north one behind the other. They were to high to be birds (pterodactyls came to mind), so I went inside to get my binoculars. What I saw was a cone shape but with a corkscrew row of lights that spun in a clockwise fashion as to propel the craft. They were dark except for the lights. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
May 3, 2017 · 8:50 AM · OTHER
Phoenix, AZ
While Waiting on the Number #41 Bus on Indian School RD, West Bound, I Looked Upward As I Always do, When I Noticed A High Altitude Contrail Made by Jet Moving from East to West, Below That I Saw A Contrail made by an Earlier Aircraft!, I Then Noticed, What Looked Like A Southwest Airliner Flying INSIDE And THROUGH This Lower Contrail, I Could Make Out The Blue Body And Red-Orange Wing Tips of This Plane, That Southwest Airlines Always Have!, Just Then a Man that Was Setting Next to Me Asked Me A Question, And I Turned Away For Just A Second, But When I Looked Back THE AIRLINE WAS GONE!!, THE SKY WAS CLEAR!!, This Just Happen IN A SECOND!!, I Don't Know What I Saw in The Sky This Morning, Maybe You Do!. End of Report!..
May 1, 2017 · 9:15 PM · CIRCLE
Marana, AZ
In the sky west of Marana, AZ. 3 flashing objects at 3 different levels above the horizon. The lowest object was also the furthest south, the highest was the furthest north. The objects seem to be holding their positions in the sky. They appear to be moving west, because they are getting smaller.
May 1, 2017 · 9:13 PM · UNKNOWN
Scottsdale, AZ
Like many nights, I'm watching the sky. I noticed something out of the corner of my eye, and when I turned to look, I saw a very bright light and it went out. It came on again within 2 seconds. I didn't think much of it since it was in a high flight path for airlines. In between the light flashes, the object didn't move much more the a passenger plane would have moved, it flashed one more time and I never saw any lights again, it just disappeared. I noticed there were no other navigation lights. No red or green nor a flashing white. this flight path was west to east and would have to be 10 to 30 thousand feet. No contrail was observed. No sound heard. I would describe the light as very bright like a helicopter landing light. The light was to my south and between 75 to 80 degrees, almost overhead. Within about 1 minute there was a plane making an east to west pass almost on a reciprocal course and altitude, all lights were visible, you could hear it, there was no comparison between the two. I spent 2 years active duty in the navy. I was trained in lookout techniques, and was a radar operator in the combat information center for most of my service.
April 22, 2017 · 9:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Surprise, AZ
Flashing lights in the western sky. 1 toward the direction of Palo Verde, the other WNW of my position in Surprise, AZ. They are there "almost" every night in 1 position or another. The one to the WSW that was there tonight appeared to be in the vicinity of Palo Verde disappeared first. It was there for almost 2 hours and went out suddenly. The one to the west stayed there until it went down below the horizon as if to have a fixed position and went down like the sun would. This is NOT a rare sighting. It occurs "almost" every time I go out at night between the hours of 9pm and 1am. There are some nights when I see it to the ESE over Eastern Phoenix. When I do not see it, looking west, I see it looking to the ESE. I see them over the White Tank Mountains and they appear to be well beyond the mountains over the open desert. Helicopters do not have fuel capacity to stay in one spot for that amount of time and do not shut there lights off and go away. Airplanes fly underneath them and move in a direct flight line.
April 17, 2017 · 7:28 PM · CIGAR
Gilbert, AZ
Flying together, spread apart in a arc formation, towards jet engine testing facility or San Tan peak; glowing bright red/orange; 4 together and then they pulsated on and off and disappeared as they approached the mountains/facility; then a 5th cigar orb also glowing red/orange followed the same route after the other 4 disappeared, it was the brightest and flashed the longest, then also disappears at the same spot above near the jet engine testing facility. Aircraft seemed to be approaching these things and they all disappeared as the airplanes neared.
April 14, 2017 · 11:00 PM · DIAMOND
Phoenix, AZ
Having only been aware of the extraterrestrial presence for the past two weeks or so, I have been watching the night sky every chance I get. On 4/09/2017 at approximately 23:00, I was sitting at the park and saw a bright white light hovering just above the trees on the eastern horizon. The light was roughly the size of a street light, but the apparent distance indicates that the light originated from a larger source. It was blinking but I'm not sure if was in a pattern. Upon seeing this light, I was filled with a great sense of fear and felt an intense need to go home. After making it back home, I lied down outside to watch the sky some more. At approximately 01:00 on 04/10/2017 (later that same night) the craft reappeared, hovering above the trees on the southern horizon this time. It was blinking at me the same way, as if testing to see if I was aware of their presence. I froze, gazed fixed on the bright, blinking light, and suddenly it was gone. I did not see it leave. Then on 04/14/2017 at approximately 22:00 the blinking light was back. As soon as I noticed it, it flew away in a direction that was hard to see. Shortly after, a craft with two solid white lights on the sides, a blinking white light at the front, and a blinking red light at the back made several passes over my house. I concentrated on these crafts, as they could have been normal airplanes, but the positioning of the lights was unlike any plane that I have seen before. The next pass (always from south to north) I held my arm up and thought the words "Is that you?" A few minutes later three crafts passed overhead simultaneously. Two from a greater distance, with the two lights on the side and the blinking lights in the front and back, and another much closer. The one that passed closer to me was diamond shaped, but didn't appear flat, almost like a prism with a glowing orange light in the middle and around the sides. At this point I decided to walk to the park to get a better view of the night sky. In the distance I could see something hovering that would blink a white light on the left side and a red light on the right side. I felt like it wanted me to follow it. I went in the direction that I thought it wanted me to go, and waited for further instruction. I don't think that I followed their directions correctly at first, so I started walking in another direction when one of the larger crafts with the two white lights on the sides made a low pass above me. I was able to see it more clearly. From below, it was diamond shaped with four smaller diamond shaped quadrants. The sides where they has the two solid white lights could light up with green or red all across, so I think they were trying to imitate regular airplanes for camouflage purposes while remaining distinct so I could follow them. There would always be one hovering in the distance while the other would make passes above me. After awhile, I noticed that both of the crafts would alter which direction was blinking white or red, as if to tell me to go in the direction of the white light. They led me a few blocks over, to a side street with a culdesac. At this point it was around 23:30 and most houses were quiet, except for one. The house at the end of the culdesac had the garage door open, light on, with a man sitting, seemingly waiting. I hesitated, for I did not want to appear insane, walking up to a strangers house in the middle of the night with no logical explanation. The blinking continued in the direction of the mans house, along with another pass from above. I finally mustered the courage to approach the house, but the man was gone. I started walking home, still watching the sky. Getting closer to home, the crafts appeared to be trying to lead me once again. They brought me through the park, to a dark corner where there were few houses around. I heard what sounded like two birds chirping at me from the trees, and walked around the area for a moment, looking for signs. The chirping sounded almost like the words, 'Over here,' and when I started to walk away, it changed to a panicked, 'Come back.' I wasn't sure if my mind was playing tricks on me, but I went back. Looked around, saw nothing, started walking away again. This time the chirps were more like high pitched beeps, like an electronic signal. I turned a flashlight to the tree and saw nothing, but the sound went back to being chirps. The chirps were telling me 'right here, below you' so I looked around the base of the tree and found a small light that is manufactured by a company here in Phoenix. I've read that an electrical company has had communications with ET life but I have not followed up on the lead as of yet. I saw the diamond crafts again last night (04/15/2017) at approximately 21:30, making several passes over my home, but I was unable to follow them this time. I feel like they can hear my thoughts when they are in close range, like they know I'd like to meet them. I do not feel as if these being have malicious intent, but they may be part of the collective. I can feel a sort of pressure in the middle of my forehead when they are around, but I can't be certain if that is a placebo effect or not as I have read about the pineal gland and how many consider it to be the 'third eye' I plan on investigating further.
April 13, 2017 · 12:00 AM · CIGAR
Phoenix, AZ
My story is very thrilling. My family and i were BBQ in our backyard. We took our seats around our fire pit and started to eat our food. One of us saw a light in the sky. He said, ''Guys! Did you see that?'' We said, ''no, what did you see?'' he said ''it was a light, i don't it was a shooting star it didn't leave a streak. but not only that....it was red and yellow. We stared like it was pulling our leg. suddenly we all saw the red and yellow craft which was a cigar shape. After about 1 it went away. The whole time the crafts were just sitting there and it almost seemed like they were spectating us. We all went to bed thinking it was just military aircrafts. but here is where it gets interesting....one us (which was a teen girl) said she woke up and heard a rumbling sound in our backyard...she said that she looked out the window and stunned to see little eyes staring at her (directly at her). she also said that that she saw an aircraft but it was very small. It was only about 10 by 4 craft. She ran to her bed and went under her covers and stayed there in till dawn. She didn't sleep at all that night and said in the morning what she saw. we went outside and we were shocked to see a lining of a large circle in the dirt. In till then we all think it was maybe a UFO. so that is why we came to you guys. Please email me back as soon as you guys can, so i can and my family figure this mystery out. There is much more details to tell. And when you email me back, please tell me if there has been any similar sightings as what i saw.
April 12, 2017 · 3:00 AM · CHEVRON
Luke Air Force Base, AZ
Seen the object frying from the direction of the white tanks toward Phoenix. The object was a chevron style object; it had a bunch of lights up in the front area, and strobe lights around the object. There was no noise coming from the object. It was flying by itself at approximately 100 mph. Since it was around 3 am it was black with a bunch of lights in the front of the object. It flew right over Luke Air Force Base.
April 11, 2017 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Chandler, AZ
We saw an amber circular light blink out, then blink in a little south of the original light, blink out again, further south, then it blinked out again and two amber circular lights blinked in further south, then out and then a single light blinked in further south, blinked out and the sighting was done. No aircraft lights, seemed to move in a straight line, no trails or falling movement and not in the direction of the Goldwater range. This was looking out towards SE Mesa/Gilbert, due east from our vantage point on the McQueen exit off of the 202 E.
April 11, 2017 · 8:30 PM · DIAMOND
Show Low, AZ
It continued to circle the area for a bit hovering at times and then flew east.
April 7, 2017 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Williams, AZ
Event started in the night sky with the appearance of three bright lights, forming an almost perfect upside-down triangle, just North of Orion's Belt in the North-West sky. The triangle lights were of equal brightness and were too far apart to be from a single craft. The upper two lights would take turns moving in and out of formation for a good twenty minutes before cloud cover obscured them. About thirty minutes later red and white lights started to appear and move in strange and an unconventional like manner in the North-West sky. This was just North of where the upside-down triangle had appeared. The lights were many and zig-zagging in all directions. Later two military jets came in from the south and the strange lights just bounced all around the two jets. Eventually, they disengaged and headed back south towards Phoenix. By the look of their aviation lights they were probably F-16s. About ten minutes later another jet came in from the South-East. This single military jet look like an F-22 from its aviation lights. It headed in the direction of were the strange lights had last been seen. Amazingly, by the time this military jet had reached the location of the strange lights, the lights were gone. The fighter must have stayed in the area for a good amount of time before it also headed South. Later in the evening the three bright lights were back in almost the same location but the triangle was now pointing up with the lower left light being the brightest of the three. On a normal day or night, we have a lot of commercial East-West flights over our territory but not on this night. During all this activity there were no commercial flights in the sky to be seen. When I checked the commercial FFA flight logs on-line, all West and East bound flights had been diverted North towards Las Vegas; and, South towards Phoenix. The dogs and coyotes in the neighborhood had been making noise for days. Last night it was dead silence all night.