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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
August 18, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Mesa, AZ
Driving and saw a soccer size green light, with light in back, fall from sky and disappeared. Was really fast. We assume a nighttime sighting, and have amended the time above, to reflect that fact. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the time. PD
August 18, 2016 · 8:37 PM · CIRCLE
Maricopa, AZ
Went outside 8:30pm, with binoculars, waiting to see the space station. At 8:37pm saw a very bright light, bigger and brighter than a star, and lower. The light was flashing rapidly. We thought it was the space station. It came from the northwest going South east. Then it started to crisscross across the sky. Every time it changed direction, 2 lights were visible. Left then right then left then right again, until it disappeared toward the southeast. Looked up what we would see if in fact it was the space station and this was not it. We caught it on a cell phone. Source of report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hence, we have no way to request permission to look at the photographic evidence the witness alludes to. PD
August 17, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Gilbert, AZ
While watching normal air traffic on approach to phx sky harbor, we observed a bright, star-like white light heading away from us in a south east direction with no nav or landing lights whatsoever. My husband, who is a pilot and builds aircraft for Boeing, knew it was no commercial aircraft and only saw one single bright constant white light when looking at it through binoculars. Our son and his girlfriend also witnessed it and it just disappeared before our eyes with no clouds in area. It was traveling in the oposite direction of any normal air traffic into or out of sky harbor airport, gilbert chandler regional, or falcon field nor was it high altitude. It seemed to be at similar altitude as traffic landing at Sky harbor,but traveling in opposite direction. Overflight of ISS at the time of the sighting. We strongly suspect that the object was the ISS. PD
August 15, 2016 · 8:05 PM · CIRCLE
Gilbert, AZ
Walking dogs in Gilbert, AZ, neighborhood a little south of Ray Rd, east of Higley Rd. Was walking East and looked up to sky and saw what looked like a satellite way up high going south. I even mentioned it to my husband. Then as we walked further south, turning the corner going East, I kept looking for the satellite, all the sudden, halfway lower to the distance of the satellite, we both saw a light the shape of a circle that looked like a bright star, but it was moving fast and was now going Southeast. We both were watching it talking about it because it had no lights, just a circle of light moving across the sky. Then all the sudden, as we were watching it, the light just disappeared right before our eyes. There were no clouds in the sky. We both said that no way it was any type of airplane. It was very weird and strange. I would have never thought I would ever see anything like this. Last night I was even going to call the 911 or airport, but I decided to! wait for today to check in the Internet to see if it was mentioned by anybody else. While I was searching, I found this website so I can report it. Thank you. We spoke with the witness who submitted this report, and we found her to be quite eloquent in her description of the sighting, and quite sober-minded. We suspect that she is an excellent witness. PD
August 12, 2016 · 4:00 AM · TRIANGLE
Interstate 8, AZ
The craft was making very quick turns and ttwists and appeared to be triangular in ahape. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 12, 2016 · 2:04 AM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
The blue light was composed of blue streaks/particles. It was close enough that it appeared to be about 10 miles above ground level. Haven't seen anything like it before, thought maybe it might of been a ship warping out since the direction was headed west but as if it was passing through.
August 6, 2016 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
Sedonna, AZ
My wife and I spent a weekend in Sedona, AZ. We hooked up with a lady who was selling UFO’s tours for $90. So this lady and another couple and my wife and I got in a large SUV and travelled a short distance out of town so as to get away from ambient city lights. We then got out of the SUV just after dark and everyone grabbed a folding chair. Our guide brought a suitcase with her. We walked to the top of a hill and sat down in a straight line looking to the north. I should mention that my wife who is a Filipina misunderstood my intentions but she followed me obediently because of her culture. She later revealed to me that she thought we were going to go for a ride in a UFO and she was really scared but she relaxed once we sat down. Now what happens next; our hostess gave each of us a 3rd generation night vision goggles and instruction on how to use them. In addition one of us at all times had a high power green laser pointer that we used to direct our view so we could all see the same object at the same time. Over the next 90 minutes the five of us all observed the same UFO’s at the same time. Therefore, we were validating our observations to each other. In total we each saw the same 36 UFO’s at the same time. When we got back home of course we had to tell everyone what we had seen. So at the next party (her family has a lot of these parties) we told everyone what we had witnessed. Not one of our family members or our friends who were there believed what we told them. I should also say that in addition we also saw one of the planets, maybe Mars, I am not sure and meteorites crashing thru the atmosphere and a couple of planes circling overhead, we were close to a small airport. The night vision goggles are very powerful.
August 2, 2016 · 7:25 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
I live on the second floor of a two story apartment building; my balcony faces south. I was standing on my balcony looking toward South Mountain and was watching the red lights flashing on top of the mountain. My attention was drawn to what looked like three white lights located at a higher altitude and to the west. The lights seemed to be pulsating and were slowly moving from west to east. I watched these lights for 3-4 minutes when all of a sudden they took off to the west and disappeared.
July 31, 2016 · 8:00 PM · RECTANGLE
Phoenix, AZ
I live in North Phoenix in a rural community and live behind a wash. I have a webcam in my backyard for security. It points North and if something passes by it will send 6 photos of it to my email. On 7/31/16 there were a lot of lightning, no thunder. The next day I got a lot of email from the webcam because of the lightning. One in particular was shot at 8 pm on 7/31/16. If you enlarge the photo you will notice a square object at the end of the lightning. I just thought the shape of this was unusual and I never saw square lightning before.
July 28, 2016 · 9:00 AM · OTHER
Phoenix, AZ
I'm a 18 wheeler end dump truck driver, and on the 28th of July, I was at a land fill called Rio Salado. Just south of the I-10 on 7th ave. I had just got done dumping my load of concrete and was on my way out of the land fill. I needed to ((use restroom)) first before I left the land fill, so I pulled off the haul road and got out of my truck ((deleted)) by the truck fuel tanks. I was ((using toilet)) and I just looked straight up into the sky, while I was going, and I saw a incredible sight. Right above me was a very strange looking contrail that was being produced but it was being produced so fast. It was at a incredible speed. WAY faster than Mach 9.6 or almost 7,000 mph. I know most commercial planes fly about 500 miles a hour and produce contrails sometimes and you can see them because they fly so slow. Not this very odd contrail it was moving so fast it had to be 5 times faster than Mach 9.6 or almost 7,000 mph. So I looked way ahead of the fast moving contrail and I saw it. It was a black swept wing looking aircraft the size of a commercial craft like a 747 and the contrails that were coming out looked puffy and strange. This craft was moving so fast FAST FAST it went from right above me to almost out of sight in less than a minute. From one side of the sky to the other in 60 seconds or so. Aircraft cannot fly that fast its impossible. As it flew out of sight I saw two other contrails being produced bearing down on the fast contrail and you could see they were following the real fast contrail but could not keep up.. It was crazy!
July 28, 2016 · 1:35 AM · CHANGING
Buckeye, AZ
Appeared to change shape from boomerang to linear to point. Did not have a defined structure or outline. Just reappeared 1:46am divided into three.
July 27, 2016 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Kingman, AZ
Two circular bright lights one behind the other tracking across the low horizon from west to north. Relatively slow moving but in total sync with each other. Disappeared behind some clouds but light could still be seen haloing the rims of the clouds. No noise was noted.
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · FORMATION
Prescott Valley, AZ
I live in Prescott Valley,Arizona about 9:30 Pm, on July 27, 2016, I was standing in my backyard looking towards the northwest it appeared to me as though there were two aircraft side by side but the sound of the engine was like the sound of a fan. It veered more toward the east and slowly glided, as though it was descending When I first saw it, it looked like the headlight was very round like a flashlight then there was at least a thousand feet of what appeared to be very hot metal the length of the craft. I could hear the motor it sounded like a fan was on. It seemed to be descending towards the East. It was huge. It seemed as though it was 1,000 to 2,000 feet away from my subdivision, here in Granville. I thought at first, they were searching for something because of the round light and it was flying so very low, then I realized the engine sound was not of a helicopter OR a small airplane. Space debris. PD
July 27, 2016 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Kingman, AZ
While sitting out on a clear night to see the stars, we spotted a bright light where we often see an unexplained light. But this was very different. It had a lit tail behind it, and instead of hovering still, it was traveling fast from West to East, at a downward slant. We thought it was a plane in distress, however it was silent. We jumped up to get a better view, and became aware that the light was only the front end of something much much larger. There was a front white light which cast a lit tail behind it, a center lit up by fog or smoke and with red glowing material like red hot coals or hot metal, and finally a back greenish light. The object moved extremely fast from one end of the valley to the other within 60 seconds, and based on trajectory, would have touched down somewhere between Kingman and Valle Vista. We heard NO noises. Wild guess at the size, HUGE at least 1 football field in length. Shape could have been cigar or saucer...long and linear. We continued to watch as a bunch of airplanes started to circulate along the trajectory and probable crash site. Space debris? Probably the re-entry of a Chinese booster. PD
July 27, 2016 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Grand Canyon, AZ
Red and blue lights on a saucer shaped craft seen at 8:30 PM, 07/27/16, moving south. It stopped, flashed completely white light beam, then turned back to red and blue flashing lights, and continued moving south.
July 27, 2016 · 2:30 AM · UNKNOWN
Surprise/Glendale, AZ
Actual object was further north, and appeared to be over Glendale
July 26, 2016 · 9:45 PM · CIRCLE
Kingman, AZ
Date may be flawed. PD
July 22, 2016 · 1:30 AM · LIGHT
Sedona, AZ
On July 22nd, at 1:30 a.m., I woke out of a deep sleep. I lay there thinking I left my rungs on the deck. I thought I needed to go get them inside, in case of rain. I went to the front door to check the weather and I look up into the sky and there was a bright white burst of light. There was no sound. I thought to myself it must be lightning and need to get the rugs in. When I went outside I looked up to where the light came from and there was not one cloud in the sky. That was not lightning.
July 21, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Phoenix, AZ
DRIVING HOME, THURSDAY, 07/21, @ APPROX 10 PM, HEADING WEST ON NORTHERN, BETWEEN 12TH ST AND 7TH ST.. AS I LOOKED FORWARD OUT THE CAR WINDOW (I WAS DRIVING), AN OBJECT CROSSED THE SKY SO FAST LIKE IT WAS HURLING TOWARD THE GROUND, BUT DISAPPEARED INSTEAD. THE OBJECT HAD 3 CIRCULAR COLORED SPHERE LIKE BALLS IN TRIANGLE FORMATION (THE ONLY COLOR I REMEMBER IS BLUE, BUT IT HAD OTHER COLORS. I KNOW DRIVERS ON THE SIDE, IN FRONT, AND BEHIND, HAD TO OF SEEN IT. IT WAS SO FAST
July 21, 2016 · 8:50 PM · LIGHT
Buckeye, AZ
Saw a light near skyline park mountain at night. The light moved fast, and moved down and up torwards the mountain. Looked like how a plane would crash, but it wasn't a plane. The light disappeared, or it went behind the mountain...I can't remember. It was really close and fast.
July 21, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Camp Verde, AZ
It was approximately 8 pm as I was returning to my house from walking my dog, when I noticed a yellow and red light hovering in the sky. It then move straight up and down without making a sound. Then the lights doubled, there were now 4 lights, 2 yellow and 2 red. They were at the same altitude. Seemed like they were connected somehow because they moved left to right then hovered. Then shot straight up, stopped, hovered again then descended down as if it were landing. I went got my girlfriend and she saw it after it had became 4 lights. Again it made no sound and it moved to quickly vertically and horizontally to be a plan or helicopter. We live 35 minutes from Sedona and our skies are usually clear, so plans and helicopters can be easily identified and heard. The object may have landed.
July 19, 2016 · 5:20 AM · DISK
Yuma, AZ
There was a very shiny light, in the distance, of my window. Suddenly, I woke up my brother to see it and it has moved location, we were still able to see it, and 10 mins later, the lights went out exotically fast leaving a blackish cloud in the sky like if it has vanished, and the other saucer in the distance was gone too, but without a cloud.
July 19, 2016 · 12:10 AM · CYLINDER
Phoenix, AZ
I woke up, out of the blue at 12:10am. I could not sleep, so I heated up some leftovers and sat on couch with lights off, in order to not wake my fiancé and baby. As I was eating, I noticed a group of red lights flying west to east that caught my attention. The lights stopped and hovered for about 10 seconds, flashed different colored lights, and then started heading west again. 15 seconds later, it was back, but this time flying like a hummingbird, stop go, stop go, stop go. I have never in my life seen anything fly like this. It was definitely NOT man made. This UFO seemed to be scanning or taking pictures of something near my backyard. After it flashed red lights a few times, it just zoomed away heading west, till I could not see it anymore. This thing made NO SOUND WHATSOEVER! Did anyone one else see it/them? I'm glad to know we are definitely not alone here. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD
July 17, 2016 · 4:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Quartzsite, AZ
As we drove, I was talking about how beautiful and bright the sun was. My "Samsung Galaxy 6" cell phone has always taken amazing pictures of the sky, ie: Moon, Sunrise, Sundown, etc. I remember looking at the sky admiring the beautful sky and fluffy white and VERY BRIGHT white clouds. I told my friend that I was going to take some pictures of the sky but could not look at it directly if I took them because the sun was extremely bright. I turned towards her as she drove and shot about 10 blind photos never looking as I clicked my phone. It was not until later that evening here at my parents in Sun City, California, that I reflected back on some of the pictures I had taken during my stay in Arizona. As I was looking at the pictures of the sky and noticed a little glowing ball. I zoomed in and noticed some beams coming down. In another photo the clouds moved and I could see more clear that it had a green and blue color around it that changed its shape from a circle to a more oval! or saucer shape. I am not sure what it is but to me it almost looks like I caught on my phone another world, universe or even another dimension. I am not sending theses in for any recognition, I am honestly just curious as to what it could be... even if it's a unique picture of the moon. During the time that elapsed I was not able to send any text messages for about an hour. My cell phone did not work to send some other pictures I had taken to a friend. I would like to add the images attached are my original pictures. They have not been photo chopped or filtered for a more vivid appearance. I did zoom in on two pictures for a clearer consensus for myself personally. Thank you for your time. Most of the photos indicate small, round, green "spheres." They are lens flares, caused by pointing a camera at the Sun. PD