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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
October 25, 2016 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Florence, AZ
I saw 9 lights in a straight line then the lights went out one at a time then they moved to a different spot and the lights came back on. These lights were like a greenish color, but then when I went to take a picture, they were gone in a flash. We have corrected the time of the sighting, which believe was 6:40 p.m. (MDT). PD
October 25, 2016 · 6:35 PM · FORMATION
San Tan Valley, AZ
While Driving Home on Cloud Rd. In SanTan Valley, I noticed a string of 4 to 5 white lights that appeared to be changing positions from end to end. Pulled over to get a video and they winked out. There are several videos that were taken and submitted to the news room of channel 3 and Channel 15 in Phoenix. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
October 25, 2016 · 6:30 PM · LIGHT
Queen Creek, AZ
Saw lights appear and dissapear then reappear in a straight line...north to south
October 25, 2016 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Mesa, AZ
Didn't look like military flares and used to live next to AFB and Army base that used them all the time. No sound and not like any aircraft I've ever seen. 40 yr old educated Hispanic American.
October 25, 2016 · 6:30 PM · CIRCLE
Gilbert, AZ
Four red lights. Dots. No glare / halo around them. Came from the south and moved north. One by one they appeared. Eventually all four lined up, equidistant apart. I thought they were helicopters or something. No sound. As soon as they lined up, they disappeared. Very linear in their motion and precise in their line-up.
October 21, 2016 · 11:50 PM · OTHER
Phoenix, AZ
I live in Phoenix Arizona. I am an adult male, never used drugs in my life, non alcohol user, no mental issues and of sound mind and body. I am the type of person generally speaking that has to see something with my own eyes, see it, touch it, taste it, feel it or witness something to believe it when it comes to things of this nature. I am just an average Joe with above average street smarts and intelligence in the game of life. Arizona is known for having high visibility and fosters the type of environment where things can be seen from a distance. I have never in my life seen anything like I did On Friday October 21st 2016 approximately 10:50pm. I saw something in the sky in the northern part of the skyline when I was taking out my trash to my dumpster. What drew my attention to it was the light it emitted and how it moved. The light was all one color and of a white light clear in nature. This was a flying object in the sky that moved like nothing I have ever seen in my lifetime. This was not something of commercial or military aircraft in nature. If it was one of ours it was of discrete nature or kept very secret. I have seen stealth bombers and fighter jets in person and this was NOT one of those. I have never in my life witnessed anything of this nature previously. I used to laugh and have doubt at people that claimed to have seen things of this nature and were so adamant about it. My opinion now has changed after what I witnessed. The way this thing moved laterally side to side was like nothing I have ever seen in my life. I will never forget that aspect of it. It was THAT fast the horizontal/lateral movement was just unreal. I stood and observed this thing in the sky for about 6 or seven minutes. I saw one of our aircraft approach it. I knew it was one of ours because it had red and blue lights and moved entirely different from how this thing moved. When our aircraft approached it whatever it was I saw disappeared in an instant. I checked online and on the news and there was nothing about this reported that I am aware of. Someone knows something about this as it was investigated by our aircraft approaching it. Another piece of the puzzle is that Luke Air Force base is close to where I live and also we are really not that far from an installation known as Area 51. What I saw was not something created by mankind. Again, if it was it was something kept very discrete and secret. That is all I have to say about it.
October 18, 2016 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
I looked out my living room window and saw a bright light that seemed to be stationary and then it jumped and then stayed still. I balanced myself against the wall to be sure I was not moving, and it jumped and hovered again. I thought it might be the star Sirius which I have seen in that direction before but it never jumped or disappeared. I looked up a map and it was in direction of Dove Mountain. I was a presenter at the MIT Alien Abduction Conference years ago and have never and have never seen a UFO before. For some reason I was drawn to the light when I was in the kitchen. Then I moved to the window in the dark living room to watch it. It was a strange feeling.
October 16, 2016 · 7:50 PM · CIRCLE
Golden Valley, AZ
A very large circular VERY BRIGHT PULSATING LIGHT THAT CHANGED COLOR FROM RED TO GREEN TO YELLOW / IT WAS UP IN THE AIR FOR FIVE MINUTES / IT NEVER MOVED / WAS ONLY IDLE. AFTER FIVE MINUTES IT COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED. Appeared in the sky South East of golden Valley, AZ, over the Black Mountains toward the Laughlin, NV / Bullhead City, AZ area.
October 16, 2016 · 12:45 PM · RECTANGLE
Tucson, AZ
I saw what appeared to be a rectangle fly across the sky. At first it looked like a plastic bag blowing in the wind, but it was too high for that. The object then flew straight up into the sky until I could not longer see it. It moved fast, and in different directions while flying up. It appeared to be spinning because I could see different contrasts such as it appeared shiny on at least one side. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 15, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Yuma, AZ
On the fall, or winter of 2016, possibly some time in October 2016, two of my step kids and I were using an outdoor hot tub from a home that we were leasing in Yuma, AZ. We were new to the Yuma, AZ area. We had left Southern California on July 04th, 2016, and had gone East to find a better and more affordable place to live. Without knowing where we were going, we decided to check out Yuma, Arizona, and soon it was decided that it was decent enough for us to live in and it was a small town that had pretty much everything that the bigger cities had as well. We leased a home for one year. The home had an outdoor pool and an outdoor hot tub where we would regularly get in it during the late afternoons and evenings to enjoy the water cooling off the hot Yuma heat during the summer time, and during the winter use the hot tub in order to enjoy some warm waters under the starry Yuma sky. The hot tub contained a strong and luminous LED multi-color light inside, and so did the pool, but the pool’s light was inoperable and needed repair, so only the hot tub light would be turned on at night. On one occasion, my step kids came into the home and were wild and excited that something from the sky had flashed a blue beam of light at them. Being that one was a seven-year old at the time, and the other was a nineteen-year old, I discarded their story as something that they had made up in order for the older one to scare the younger one, and practically forgot and put the entire incident to rest. As a matter of fact, we went on with pretty much a normal routine after the incident was reported by the kids, and we continued to use the pool and hot tub regularly. On several occasions I started paying more attention to the night skies. Almost daily (it’s just a matter of time here in this region) we would observe these small white moving orbs float by from star to star. They would sometimes pause momentarily, and they would camouflage themselves with other celestial bodies. Sometimes these objects would stop to pause in the sky, temporarily making one lose sight of it, but most of the time they just floated on by the night sky. For a few weeks, or months, I tried to see if there was a directional pattern of flight of these objects, but the answer was, No. These were independent objects that were far beyond our air space. I know, because next to us is the Marine Corps Yuma Air Station, and on several occasions I tried to visually compare how high the Marine planes ! would climb up in the sky to where more or less I had seen these objects, and these objects had to have been way much higher in distance from the ground than the MCAS jets flew. Some floated on fast, while others a bit slower, and they held a constant speed too, even after they started moving from a temporary pause. It was either October of 2016 or November of 2016 when my step son and my step daughter decided to go later on in the evening and use the hot tub. We started talking about the incident that they had witnessed in the sky the time that they saw the beam of blue light shine upon them. At one point, I asked them if they could show my the direction of where this blue beam of light appeared from, and they both pointed towards the northern skies of Yuma. Being a former U.S. Army Communications Soldier myself, from 2000 – 2009, I am familiar with the basics of how a few methods of communications work. Something in my mind told me to try and use the very bright and luminous LED lamp to see if I can somehow communicate with whatever was out there in the sky. I thought that the chances of something responding back was slim to none. But I was wrong. Since the LED lamp in the hot tub could be set to a specific color by a series of flicks of the switch, I had set the color to a light blue color. Once the color had been set, I went into the hot tub and I sat facing North, fortunately the LED lamp was facing north as well as it was built-in to the hot tub’s southern part. I began covering the LED lamp with my hands. At first, I started doing a series of either two counts or three covered, and then uncovering it for the same amount of time. I probably did this for a good five to fifteen minutes. In the time that I was doing this, I also varied that times that I would cover the light and the times that I would uncover the lights. At one point I saw it! The blue light came from the Northern Sky and just focused on us three in the hot tub! It was sort of like a one second burst of light upon us, but it happened! All three of us saw the blue light, and afterwards we all went into the house and shared with my girlfriend ! and other step-daughter what we had just witnessed and encountered. I never did that experiment again afterwards, and I only shared it with a few people but was met with skepticism and ridicule. Interestingly though, since that occurrence I’ve got a few skin blotches on my right hand that appeared soon afterwards and have been having some memory issues. It doesn’t help that I am a disabled combat veteran today, served in Afghanistan as a Combat Engineer in 2006 – 2007), and have PTSD. If it were not for my step kids seeing the light that night too, I would of have had thought that I was going crazy or be told probably by the VA that my medications might of have had caused me hallucinations. By the way, I am not the only one experiencing these strange physical and mental symptoms, so is my now twenty-one-year-old step daughter too, but not so much my young step-son. I hope that this report can help another person to see and bear witness that these orbs and blue lights are real.
October 15, 2016 · 6:03 PM · UNKNOWN
Prescott, AZ
A strange bright light just before sunset hovering over the Northwest territory beyond the city of Prescott. It was moving erratically and then just drifted farther west and faded out completely. What was strange is that it was so brightly lit up, but it wasn't night time, so it looked out of place and then the way it moved was odd. There was a short trail in the sky near where the light faded out. Maybe a helicopter?
October 13, 2016 · 10:00 PM · SPHERE
Parker, AZ
Once again above the desert here where i live, red orb like lights appeared, traveled the same exact path and vanished into thin air just like they appeared. This seems to be taking place on a regular basis, question is...what are they?
October 8, 2016 · 6:13 PM · OTHER
Prescott, AZ
I was waiting for friends in an alley off Goodwin St. in Prescott, AZ, between City Hall and an art gallery, where I was going to help them set up for a weekly lecture series. I looked into the western sky where the sun had already set, and to the south of Thumb Butte, hovering stationary over the ridgeline, was the strange object. I wrote the following journal entry less than half an hour later: "At 1813 I spotted a hovering object in the western sky. It pretty much remained stationary, but turned end upon end and rotated. The object looked like six "balloons" tethered to a central point [here I made a drawing in my journal]. There were no lights on the object. I could see no line tethering it to the ground, and it behaved as though it were free from any external restraints. I watched it until 1829 and it moved practically imperceptibly, except for its rotating and tumbling. It's now too dark to see it at 1856." My friends arrived several minutes after I caught sight of the object and I beckoned them over to see what I was looking at. They saw it, but were unimpressed and nonplussed. I continued to watch it, as noted above, until 1829 when it was almost too dark to see. I subsequently discovered that there had been a rash of sighting over the previous few days to the south of Prescott in the Valley. The object was six-lobed, like a child's jack, and the lobes were in constant motion around its center, giving it a "tumbling" effect.
October 8, 2016 · 12:00 AM · FLASH
Cochise County, AZ
Flashes lighting up portions of the sky. Also, last year witnessed 4 lights hovering in diamond shape in St. David for over an hour.
October 1, 2016 · 7:30 PM · OTHER
Phoenix, AZ
My son (32) year old saw 7 objects that looked like fire in the sky. They started according to him in the northwest sky and moved in a group south. They then changed direction and started heading ENE ,then changed direction again to head south south west as they continued on this coarse they began to fade off one by one . Meanwhile my girlfriend and I were heading to his house on a westerly direction .as I turned north I saw 2 objects that almost looked like sheets or something burning moving south i stopped the car in the middle of the street and asked my friend if she saw what i was looking at and she said yes looking over my shoulder . We both sat there in the middle of the street in the car and watched as they vanished . when we got to my sons house he was still looking up at the sky ,we asked him if he saw it and then described what he had just saw to us .
September 25, 2016 · 11:46 PM · CIRCLE
El Mirage, AZ
The lights lasted for about a minute before disappearing. It wasn't moving, the color of the lights was light a really dark yellow if not orange shade. I sat there for about 10 minutes in my car and still no sight of what it was appeared back in the dark skies. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 15, 2016 · 11:20 PM · RECTANGLE
Benson, AZ
Large rectangular light bar like object swooped down from the hills in a flash, from the east as we were traveling westbound I-10 just east of Benson.
September 10, 2016 · 1:50 AM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Friend noticed something odd in the night sky at around 1:50am east of our position. It appeared to be right over Vail, AZ, or our suburb of Rita Ranch. It was rather odd, when we noticed these three lights, that could form a triangle. The three lights began to move our direction without breaking formation, and then halted in one spot. It did not move from the position, but instead seemed to blink their lights and stare at us. I can only assume that they knew of us and watched with caution. The interesting thing about these lights were that they seem to be blinking in a pattern of sorts, and the left light happened to be the color green, but the other two lights were typical bright star-like lights (although far brighter and clearly closer). There is no full moon out, nor was it a new moon; the moon was not in my view when looking east toward these lights. The strangest thing was the coyotes were noisy, far nosier than usual. Typically you may hear a few coyo! tes yipper and howl, but only once in a blue moon (pun intended); this time every coyote was at it. I thought it may be a party down the wash since it was Fri/Sat, but it was rather late. Anyways, my friend an I viewed this mystery for a few moments and normally I'm able to point out whether or not it was a plane or helicopter, of course three lights flashing in a strange pattern is a little odd. The left green light was curious as you never really hear about colored lights unless it pairs with other colors (notably red, because then its a human craft). The lack of sound didn't help, nor the stationary position it developed. I wasn't going to wait around any much longer and told my friend to step outside and make sure I enter my house safely (I live across the street in the direction of the mystery), yeah, I was spooked and it was still there when I had entered. I want to point out however that Davis Monthan Air Force Base was to our north and northwest, but what we viewed was directly to the east. I failed to record the event, at 2am with only the two of us, like hell I'm staying around. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
September 6, 2016 · 2:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Tucson, AZ
I witnessed a triangular shaped craft flying slightly west of Tucson AZ. This craft appeared above a large military jet, the size of a C-130 transport. The smaller triangular shaped craft didn't attract my attention until I noticed the speed and flight pattern it was flying, and then grabbed my eye. The speed at which this craft traveled gave my a wierd feeling, like I was watching a cartoon. It followed a corkscrew pattern with a few slight deviations. It also appeared like it was making a flight pattern similar to a radical roller coaster with the upward corkscrew at tremendous speed, ending with a vertical burst of speed through the clouds leaving my field of vision. Was this a newer fighter jet like the F22.? This event left a lasting impression on me. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 30, 2016 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
between 9:45 and 10:01 p.m. on 8/30/2016. my girlfriend and I saw two lights hovering over the tempe area. we were looking south to southwest. two orangeish red ish lights side by side with one slightly higher than the other hovered for about 10 mins then flickered off... then reappeared but seemed to be further away this time... I have cell phone video and would like to send it in.
August 30, 2016 · 9:40 PM · FIREBALL
Tempe, AZ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 23, 2016 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Gila Bend, AZ
I'm a truck driver. When traveling South on the Phoenix Bypass (85), I saw in front and above me two lights that at first made me think of the copper vapor lights seen at prisons such as the one I was approaching. I thought they were on really tall poles though and maybe they were just too high for that. One was lower and to the left of the other. The distance apart I estimated to be 50 to 100 feet. They moved steadily with me and disappeared. Ten to fifteen minutes later at a steady 68mph, I saw them again to the East of me. They were descending slowly and just off center and to the right of the lower light I could see smoke trailing. It again disappeared on me but I thought maybe due to a hill or other obstruction as it was at least a mile away. It was moonless and very dark in the desert so I figured to see all kinds of activity where it went down. I never did see anything out in that vast darkness.
August 22, 2016 · 10:15 PM · OTHER
Prescott Valley, AZ
It looked like a really bright star, or a stationary plane in sky, but it was orange. When I stepped outside at night, it was already there in the western sky. Then another bright, similar light appeared just to the upper left of it. It was the way that they appeared and disappeared that was odd. They glowed on and off really slowly.
August 22, 2016 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Sedona, AZ
For 3 to 4 nights I observed amber lights emanating from what appeared to be 3 large windows up on Wild Horse Mesa which is behind my house to the east (I watch sun and moon rise over it). On the 22nd of August I decided to put my cell phone camera lenses on top of the eye piece of a small table top telescope and attempt a shot. When looking directly through the telescope I had real good detail of the "windows" but saw no movement or entities. I shot a small sequence of pictures and the went back to zoom in and see what I had.... well the one picture I will provide was astounding to me to say the least. Last night - 8/25 - the light from the area on the mesa had gone from bright amber to a dim grayish blue but seemed to have increased in size/area. Never seen anything like it and this will be my 1st ever report. Thanks