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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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April 5, 2017 · 6:00 PM · SPHERE
San Tan Valley, AZ
Want to start off by saying I have never seen this much activity in the sky over San Tan Valley. I've seen a few things I couldn't explain in the past over this horizon. Went in my backyard to feed dogs and I looked up in the sky like I always do. Saw a bright red "star" in distance, which I thought was a plane heading straight at me. It got bigger as it approached then stopped in the sky. It hovered over the San Tan Mountains for a while, then directly under it to the right another white light appeared. Slowly drifted north. Then another similar light appeared and did the same. For a while the three lights formed an Isosceles triangle. The two white lights drifted toward Chandler/Gilbert area and when they got over the populated area started to flicker like that of an airplane. But not constant like a planes lights flashing. The white lights started to flicker a lot and dipped under the horizon out of sight. The red "star" stayed still drifting upward slightly. What I thought was a plane headed towards the red light, then stopped and completely changed directions and drifted upward. Couldn't believe what I saw. The red light then started to fade away but not until a bright white orb appeared under it, pulsated, shifted direction and disappeared. Before the circus ended a smaller red orb drifted up to the red star and almost "kissed" it before changing directions and fading away. Also when all this activity was happening I saw three aircraft in the sky fly by. One flew almost directly over my house. Had a big green light under it and I couldn't tell if it was a plane or a helicopter. Made almost no sound at all. The other two flew directly under an orb but must not have seen it. This sighting left me with an uncontrollable gut wrenching feeling in my stomach. Too much activity for no one else to witness.
April 2, 2017 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
Mesa, AZ
Looking SE from my 3rd floor apartment patio, saw what I thought at first glance was the police helicopter circling something but when I looked back it had done this super fast circle and immediately dropped behind the tree/building line of sight. Seconds later, it reappeared and achieved a very high altitude in seconds. I recorded it on my phone and will be sending that footage to you guys as well. In the video, it appears as a blue dot and seems to hover for a bit then starts descending again as a passenger plane approaches. It lowers below the aircraft, hovers for a second, then continues its descent until out of view again. Shortly after a helicopter flew over the area as well as other lights that looked to be small aircraft or helicopters in the distance for about 10 minutes afterwards. I understand this could just be someone playing with a drone or whatever, but the altitude it appears to achieve and the speed it occurs at is something I've honestly never seen before. Never seen a "drone" or anything like this flying in this area of Mesa/East Valley in my whole life. Like I said, could possibly be explained or "debunked" but I felt strong enough about it to let you guys take a look. Thank you.
March 26, 2017 · 12:58 AM · CIRCLE
Prescott Valley, AZ
From my back yard, with my dog, and I was looking West at 1:00am and saw a bluish light moving south, the light changed direction 90 degrees and began moving towards me. At this point, I thought it was just a helicopter, because the light was quite a distance away, maybe 8-10 miles away. The light stopped moving and just sat still for 30-45 seconds before it began moving quickly like a moth, back and forth and up and down in no particular pattern. My dog started acting weird and rushed back to the door, so I went to let him in, and when I turned back, the light was gone completely. I did take a picture while it was sitting still, which I submitted with my report, but it appears as just a small light with no distinct features. Once it started moving, I tried taking a video, but my camera could not focus because the movement was random and quick.
March 24, 2017 · 4:14 PM · TRIANGLE
Goodyear, AZ
We have contacted the source of the missive, requesting more information about the event, and requesting a copy of the photo. PD
March 23, 2017 · 8:25 PM · CIRCLE
Bullhead City, AZ
As I was driving on Lakeside dr by Rotary park, I looked up and saw 3 orange glowing circular lights in the sky. They were positioned in the shape of a triangle. I slowed to a stop in the road and continued to observe the lights. They were pulsing orange they were high in the sky and larger than any other stars or surrounding lights by more than 10 times. I began to pull off the road to watch these lights/crafts/ufos. I took my eyes off of them for a split second, and when I looked back, what was 3 lights was now only one. The other two had disappeared. I scanned the sky quickly and couldn't find them. I continued to watch the last circular light as it pulsed orange. It did this a few times before disappearing completely and suddenly. This whole encounter lasted between 30-45 seconds I believe. And it happened about 30 mins ago at this point.
March 23, 2017 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
2 of my friends and I were heading east down Baseline Rd. in two separate cars, about a mile in distance apart. While one of my friends insists it appeared white, I beileved it to be green, a craft heading in a small arc coming towards the ground in the east valley. I could only make it out to be a small circle, for I was not close enough to decide the shape.
March 22, 2017 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Mesa, AZ
My 13 yr old son and I were throwing frisbee in the front yard. It was late afternoon, around 6pm. I noticed something really high in the sky and started staring. My son asked what I was staring at, and then turned around and exclaimed, "Wow, that is really high in the sky." We both proceeded to watch it sitting still in the sky, and then after a few seconds, moved slowly, sort of drifting, to our right for a few seconds, and then disappeared. At this time, my son swung back around with excitement and asked, "Where did it go?!". I wondered the same and shrugged my shoulders. The object was round and very shiny, silver looking. It made no noise and had no chemical trail behind it. Very strange...???
March 20, 2017 · 11:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Ajo, AZ
My wife and I stepped outside to see what our dogs were barking at and heard a humming/jet engine sound. (We hear & see jets all the time because we are 10 miles south of BMGR training area.) This was not a "normal" jet engine sound. When we looked straight up, we saw a HUGE triangular shaped something with red lights at each point of the triangle. This thing appeared to be as big as a baseball park (not just the diamond, the stands and everything). It was flying in a totally different direction than the jets we see almost every night training on BMGR. We never see commercial aircraft down here because of BMGR. It's pretty much a no-fly zone. This was the first time my wife and I have ever thought that we definitely saw a UFO (we're in our early 60's). Stealth bomber? If it was, it was by far the biggest aircraft we've ever seen. We watch it until it faded out of sight. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 20, 2017 · 8:15 PM · FIREBALL
Chandler, AZ
I was sitting on my balcony last night around 8pm-9pm. I looked up in the southeast sky and started seeing orange reddish balls of light. Some in formation others on their own. They were going from west to east and what looked like up as opposed to down but gradually not fast. I ran inside to get my mother and her phone to take pictures. It lasted about 15 minutes to half an hour. My mother saw the same objects. No reports on the news or internet. Others must have seen them they were very apparent.
March 19, 2017 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
They stayed in the same spot for 90 minutes while the two that joined them kept leaving and coming back. Helicopters came and kept circling them they started to move farther away. We have pictures.
March 19, 2017 · 6:45 PM · CHANGING
Phoenix, AZ
I was driving west on US-60 on trip to Sky Harbor Airport and noticed a bright silvery cylinder shaped object over, I believe, South Chandler. I was in the distance... Based on a thin cloud bank I would place the altitude at about 8000' so it must have been large. I first saw it at the 10 o'clock position. I first thought that it was sunlight on a jet contrail, but as it became larger I thought that it may be a plane on approach to the Mesa Gateway Airport... then it began to recede to the southwest... I almost wrecked the car trying to watch it. There have got to be hundreds of witnesses, because it was very prominent... It then drifted back into the thin cloud layer and I thought it was gone, but it was bright enough to shine through... Then from a cylinder it then appeared as two equally sized globes just touching each other... I had to watch my driving so looked away briefly and thought it had moved away, but you could still see it behind the thin cloud... at one point it appeared to emit a curving smoke trail... then that stopped and the two globes began to sparkle... I again resumed driving.... the next time I had a chance to look up it was gone... There absolutely have to be other witnesses to this. It was still daylight and this thing was prominently in view. This thing was bizarre. I checked today's local news.... nothing... but then saw a video on you-tube that showed it... Only at the point where it was two globes. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Addendum to 3/20/17 submittal regarding the 3/19/17 incident... The cylinder was situated at a 30% tilt, higher side to the left. Object's length was approximately 7 times its width. US 60 runs exactly east/west... this object was at the 10 o'clock position. It was nearly sunset. There are always contrails in the very busy skies...they were all orange and this object was silvery white. The spheres that It turned into were pretty much the same width as the cylinder appearance, but occupied 1/4 the length of the original cylinder. It is possible that it was two cylinders side by side that turned so as to make it appear as two spheres... just a guess. The object stayed double-sphere in appearance until it receded to the southwest... emitted a sinuous smoke emission from the left side of the left sphere which dispersed almost immediately... the object was receding slowly... then it began to sparkle with lights brighter than the initial silvery white appear! ance… I looked away for not more than 10 seconds...when I looked back it was no longer visible. It is impossible than no one else saw this... as it was fairly large with an apparent width of your index finger at arms length at its narrowest and was slightly larger upon my initial observation. I am a major sky watcher, and I am certain this had no astronomical explanation. Bizzare… Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 16, 2017 · 8:15 PM · OTHER
tempe, AZ
Was in my home in South Tempe near Baseline and the 101 Freeway, when I heard the sounds of one or more large helicopters passing overhead. I remained indoors, when about 5 minutes later the event was repeated. On the third occasion, I ran outside and observed a single helicopter with navigational lights on at a very low altitude (under 500 feet) passing from north to south. It was tailing an object which appeared to be longitudinal and tapered of about the same length as the helicopter. The object had a string of approximately 20-25 small white unvarying lights arranged along its length. The object displayed no other lights. The helicopter appeared to be a Blackhawk, although that is just a guess as it was difficult to see due to darkness. Previously, we have in the past had Marine helicopters occasionally perform similar maneuvers in our area when practicing urban combat training. However those occasions were marked by that was always announced well in advance and there was no such announcement on this occasion.
March 16, 2017 · 8:12 PM · OTHER
Tempe, AZ
Two military helicopters flying rectangular paths around the East Valley of Phoenix AZ. Lead aircraft was a Cobra with lots of armor looking items hanging off each side of the aircraft. Second helicopter was a military type, id unknown, passenger type. Both aircraft were painted in a light gray color. I got a good look at the cobra with my binoculars, it was about 200 feet off the deck above my home in Mesa AZ. Both helicopters were flying at high speeds compared to the normal speed of police and medical helicopters that frequent the area. At the same time a prop driven aircraft was circling our part of the city at about 8 to 12 thousand feet during this 45 minute period of time. When the helicopters left the area the prop plane at high altitude left to the west. Unknown which way the 2 military helicopters left due to there low altitude. I realize this is not a UFO sighting but, unless this is an unannounced military exercise over a large city, something is going on. I have sat in my back yard a lot over the last 20 years, this situation is very unusual. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 16, 2017 · 7:35 PM · TRIANGLE
Chandler, AZ
I saw 3 bright red lights flying in a triangular formation very low to the ground and in complete silence. The objects were very low to the ground and heading west over Chandler. The red objects would move closer to one another and then further apart while maintaining a triangular pattern varying from equilateral, to iscoseles, to scalene, in nature. The frequency at which these lights were blinking were mutually exclusive. They all seemed to make up part of a whole, but they were emanating light on their own accord with complete autonomy. I immediately ruled out radar on a commercial aircraft because of the nature of the blinking of these objects. After a minute, they disappeared out of my line of vision. Shortly after, 2 helicopters appeared to give chase to whatever this thing was.
March 15, 2017 · 5:50 PM · OVAL
Phoenix, AZ
Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
March 15, 2017 · 7:15 AM · SPHERE
Phoenix, AZ
Time and date appear to be flawed. Hoax?? Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. PD
March 14, 2017 · 8:24 PM · SPHERE
Chandler, AZ
Me and my girlfriend were in my backyard, sitting on our patio furniture facing west. I first observed at a distance, facing west, a white sphere. Then right behind it I saw green sphere, then red then blue. I first I thought the white sphere was the light from a plane or helicopter. This is common where we live. However, as the objects got closer, I was expecting a sound but never heard any. I kept looking at them because had never seen such glowing colored lights on any aircraft before. They were not blinking. More resembling glowing balloons. Were moving way too fast to be just drifting. I caught on video from my gf's cell but was hard to make out. Only some of the green glowing object could be seen. It appeared to me that they were not connected together, but more like flying in a group, with no visible pattern that I could tell. They flew overhead, not making any sound, and continued into the distance to the east keeping the same pace. Source of the report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
March 14, 2017 · 6:45 AM · OTHER
Phoenix, AZ
Walking east in a parking lot at Salt River Drive and Priest in Tempe, AZ, then looked towards Sky Harbor and noticed 2 large objects with multiple, much smaller objects around them. The person with me also saw these objects and neither of us could determine what the objects were. There were flashes from the smaller objects that were quite random and appeared to be reflections of the sun light. The objects appeared to be moving in a North, northwest direction, and behaving much like a balloon. It was very hard to make out the shapes but the 2 larger objects appeared almost diamond shaped while the smaller objects were just dots. The objects seemed to have a reddish color. I had to enter a building and by the time I was able to get to a higher floor, about 5 minutes later, there was no sign of the objects.
March 14, 2017 · 5:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Goodyear, AZ
The witness forwarded a photo of what he alleges was the object he witnessed, but it is too blurry for us to be able to determine what it is. Possible hoax?? PD
March 13, 2017 · 9:26 PM · SPHERE
Mesa, AZ
They circled around a few miles past me and were headed south near the Mesa and Tempe border. No noise from the smaller craft. Although they seemed to move in unison, they were 2 separate objects.
March 13, 2017 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Glendale, AZ
Source of report provides no information; elects to remain totally anonymous. PD
March 11, 2017 · 8:55 PM · SPHERE
Casa Grande, AZ
My son's and I saw 4 bright orange orb lights in the night sky of Casa Grande, AZ, about 8:55pm on 03/11/2017. We watched them until they disappeared one by one. A jet passed the lights and in know way could they miss the sighting.
March 9, 2017 · 9:25 PM · FORMATION
Phoenix, AZ
Over north Phoenix near Deer Valley airport. Three red lights with then three blue lights hovered in the same spot for 30 seconds, or so. Some flashing of the lights, then it moved on the the north. It was still bright far away, brighter than planes would be. Over the Cave Creek area, it looked to stop and hover again. I called the airport to ask if there was military excercises going on to which they said no. I asked if they saw the lights and the guy said he had no clue.
March 8, 2017 · 2:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Phoenix, AZ
In the eastern sky over Phoenix at 2am on Mar 9th ((sic. 08th)), my friend and I saw 4 bright lights flickering fast at first then slow then fast again. Then in a blink of the eye was to the left then to the right in the sky went back and forth several times then stopped. Then it was gone. But then saw it far far away flickered twice then gone completely.