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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
July 14, 2016 · 8:40 PM · OTHER
Gold Canyon, AZ
I was looking up to the east and saw an aircraft flying from the south, going northeast at about 3500-4000 feet. This craft was not completely circular, and was not quite oval. It reminded me of the shape of a crown. I could see the bottom and sides of it. It was moving slightly faster than the planes that come from the north towards Williams airport. It had only once color of lights. It had two horizontal rows of bright green lights around it, and around the craft, there were some vertical bright green lights in sections. The top and bottoms of the vertical lights seemed to extend from the craft. As it moved, I saw a sudden flash of the lights getting brighter, then back to the original green. It continued moving, and when in mid sky, in reference to my vantage point, the lights flashed brighter a second time. After they flashed, I saw only sky and stars in its place. There was no sign of the aircraft. Also, there was a rough, low sound during the time I sa! w the air craft, but myself and the other person who wasn’t looking at the craft thought it was a car or some machine in the neighborhood, although an odd sound. When the aircraft disappeared, the sound stopped. I've seen strange lights over years, rarely, but this was an actual aircraft unlike any that I've ever seen. When the lights flashed on and then it was gone, it took me a moment to realize it was gone and not falling from the sky, which is what I would have expected.
July 12, 2016 · 9:45 PM · FLASH
Kingman, AZ
All of a sudden a spotlight appeared high in the sky and only lasted one second. This was definitely not an aircraft and was high in the sky like where the stars and satellites were. We both saw it it was very bright, and we both immediately said what was that.
July 11, 2016 · 7:00 PM · OTHER
Tucson, AZ
We have requested permission to view the photos, but no response from the witness, yet. PD
July 7, 2016 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
On Thursday, July 7th, 2016, two friends and I were leaving the Star Pass Resort in the Tucson Mountains, west of Tucson, at about 9:30 or so. After having dinner there, we walked out the east side of the resort headed to the parking lot. We looked up into the northeastern sky to see a group of “stars” all of moderate intensity among thin wispy clouds centered about 40 degrees above the horizon line. Because the night was partly cloudy, there were very few stars visible and I found it quite odd to see so many visible “stars” of similar intensity grouped equidistant from one another. I thought there were about 14-16 lights. One of my two friends believed there were more than 20. He then exclaimed that they were slowly moving. I looked closer, comparing the relative proximity of two of the lights and was amazed to find he was correct. At that moment, a bright blue light, the brightness of a significant meteorite and much brighter than the other lights, fell straight down, zig zagging slightly before it disappeared from our line of vision behind a wing of the hotel. At that moment, two other bright blue lights of similar intensity passed over our heads on parallel paths. We were swearing in amazement quite a bit at this moment. They continued steadily across the sky until they met up with the more distant, dimmer lights in the misty cloud bank to the northeast. This took about 15 seconds. When they joined the other lights they took on the same level of light intensity. Then they all faded away simultaneously. I am a native of Tucson, 47 years old with a Master’s degree. I grew up staring at the stars and have never seen anything like this before. My friends are 48 and 54 and are also well educated men.
July 7, 2016 · 9:30 PM · TEARDROP
Tucson, AZ
Objects were small, high in the sky, and seemed to flicker. They moved across the entire sky, from W to E, within a span of a few minutes--the length of time it took to get another family member out to see the last few objects, as they slipped into the cloud cover.
July 7, 2016 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Tucson, AZ
At approx. 9:30 pm tonight myself and my mother in law observed a collection of faintly lit star-like objects that drifted slowly across the sky from west to east. The cluster of some 100-200 star-like objects seemed to be at similar altitudes and produced similar amounts of light, about equal to that of the average star. We observed the UFOs for about 3 or 4 minutes, until they disappeared behind the clouds.
July 4, 2016 · 9:00 PM · SPHERE
El Mirage, AZ
Assuming that the sighting was at night, we have amended the time above. PD
July 2, 2016 · 9:03 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Lights Over Phoenix, AZ July 2nd, 2016 9:03 PM I was sitting on my patio in south Scottsdale near Oldtown, when I heard a loud bang. As I looked up towards the North West I noticed the 3 objects falling in unison. I first thought that maybe 2 aircrafts had collided in the sky and these objects were falling debris on fire. I started to record a video and as doing so the trailing lighted objects proceeded to move along different flight patterns, even turning and changing direction. The altitude was way too high to be fireworks and the patterns of the lights made me think about potential rockets or missiles. However, rockets and missiles move at a much larger rate of speed. I’m a veteran of the U.S. Army that worked in avionics and with the knowledge I have over the Hellfire missile there’s little that relates for it to be classified as such. There is a lot I still do not know on the subject though. Nothing as far as I can tell makes any sense. I’m an avid reader of science-fiction and do believe in the possibility of many lifeforms in the universe, even intelligent life. This is the only experience I’ve had first hand. Towards the end of my recording my roommate happens to come out and witness the lights and their maneuvers through the sky as well. I would describe the lights to have a yellowish tint and large sparking trails following them. Around the 40 second mark you’ll see the bottom light start to change directions more rapidly than the rest of the video with clear visibility of the trail of light behind it. Then around the 1:01 mark all 3 lights come back and form a triangular shape in the sky. Excuse my language in the commentary at this point too. Like I have stated this is my first experience with something I believe to be supernatural and I’m not sure if all the information you need is provided. If there are any questions or need any follow up I’m more than happy to help. I immediately uploaded my video to social media, but for ease of access here is the link to the video I’ve now posted to Youtube. https://youtu.be/wVpXssN0VK0 Thank you for your time. ((name deleted))
June 29, 2016 · 1:01 AM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Please review the show of "American Monster " S1 / E5 "Shooting Phoenix" This show has absolutely nothing to do with UFO sightings, but around 40 to 45 minutes in the hour long show there is a scene that is suppose to be a night view of the skyline somewhere over Phoenix, Arizona. I noticed as I was watching the show an unexplained occurrence with a fast traveling light coming from the left right above the city lights at an extremely fast speed compared to the traffic on the highway below it traveled quickly towards the right of the tv screen then came to an abrupt stop and dropped to the road level slowly did a complete 360 and traveled back towards the left at a southwest angle. I and several others have watched this footage over and over the only explanation we can figure out is that it could truly be a sighting! Granted I know that only the producers and editors of this show know when and where this footage they used was really captur! ed on tape and was used at this particular time on the making of Season One / Episode Five of "American Monster. Please give this a moment of your time and check it out it might be worth investigating further either way I would love to hear your opinion on this. Thank-you.
June 27, 2016 · 8:25 PM · OVAL
San Tan Valley, AZ
On June 27, 2016, I was in my back yard shooting pics of a coming storm when looked up and saw 3 iridescent blue orbs. They were flying South at a good rate of speed, equidistant from ea other. There was no sound whatsoever coming from these objects. They were about 10,000 ft high.
June 27, 2016 · 5:50 PM · OVAL
Phoenix, AZ
This citing occurred on Monday, June 27, 2016 at 5:50 P.M. in Phoenix, Arizona. I was driving home going west on Bell Road, past the 51 Freeway by a few minutes. I stopped for a red light. There were monsoon clouds in the distance, but something closer caught my eye as I was waiting. This "cloud" was unusually bright--white. I looked at it and realized that it wasn't a cloud--it was too small in the foreground, very white/illuminated, and had a very distinctive (not blurry around the ends like a cloud) shape. The light was shaped like a skinny oval. From the top, the oval wasn't flat but graduated up towards the center about 15 degrees. Suddenly, from each end a beam of a similar bright light (thin like a string) shot out at the same time then this "shape" shot straight up and was gone.
June 19, 2016 · 11:32 PM · SPHERE
Sun City West, AZ
Bright luminous green glowing round shaped UFO travelling South of Deer Valley Road, West of El Mirage Road in a Western direction. Approximate 600 foot elevation and less than 1000 feet from my location. It turned North West and proceeded out of sight. When it passed by I could see (2) white lights on top of (2) red lights in the rear.
June 19, 2016 · 12:20 PM · CYLINDER
Green Valley, AZ
My dad is driving on the highway and i saw a silver shiny metalic shape just hovering over the ground, it was maybe 30 foot wide and not really tall. Shaped like a cigar or cylinder, then suddenly it started to fade away, kind of strange, like if it was becoming invisible. No, it was not a plane nor a drone.
June 17, 2016 · 8:05 PM · SPHERE
Oro Valley, AZ
Very bright sphere sighted traveling from west due east. Object appeared slightly larger than Mars. With a nearly full moon in the sky it was very to estimate objects brightness (much brighter than any star). The object disappeared beyond the Catalina mountain range.
June 15, 2016 · 8:00 PM · FORMATION
Gilbert, AZ
I am former USAF. I observed what I can only described as orbs going across the sky from 9 to 3 oclock direction wise. There were quite a few I can not even guess on the number of them. They were moving at a good pace, but they also would disappear and reappear. These were not Chinese lanterns because they would not turn off and then back on. Nor where these aircraft because they were not blinking simply would shutoff for a few seconds then turn back on. I personally had not seen anything like it. My wife was also with me and so everything and she was very frightened from it. Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD
June 13, 2016 · 10:30 PM · CIRCLE
Phoenix, AZ
My view is of North Phoenix, looking north over Deer Valley Airport. Object a bright light moving from North to South/Southeast at piper cub speed, 8K to 10K ft. Definitely not jet speed. As it got closer, the clarity of the light led me to believe it was a helicopter, and as I waited to see red/green lights the following happened over five seconds: the object, now almost directly overhead, slowed slightly, and emitted a smaller bright ball/streak of light in front of it, and then both faded and disappeared. Most certainly not a meteor - way too slow - I have been watching the skies since I was a kid. No sound. That was it. I checked my eyes and glasses, and it was gone. Cloudless night, slight breeze, warm but not hot. A few moments later, a helicopter, which was certainly audible, came in the same direction, perhaps trying to follow it?
June 13, 2016 · 2:00 AM · CIRCLE
Phoenix, AZ
I'm about 30 miles north of phx (Carefree/New River). Just saw bright white/blue circular ring (halo) of lights near central phx. was moving in a strange up and down motion towards the east then appeared to descend down and faded out (I'd guess West of the 51 , South of Loop 101 ). From where I'm at, I could see it was much too large in circumference to be a normal aircraft, and the dark center was obviously not like any plane I've ever seen. And we see the planes all night here due to flight patterns over our town and were arent blinded by the city lights and can enjoy the stars. Not my first strange craft sighting but first time posting to site, will be back. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 12, 2016 · 11:30 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Reason for being up the mountain so late was because I had just got off work, and walked home. Instead of going straight home, I had gone to the mountain to see the city lights which are very beautiful and night. I could see just about the whole city of Phoenix, Arizona. This flying object of the unknown was more north; I think heading straight to Nevada.
June 11, 2016 · 11:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Peoria, AZ
Red and green lights appeared in the sky, I thought it was a helicopter. Starting moving really fast and zig-zagging unlike a helicopter then the lights were red & white and it looked like it hid under a tree line. Came back after a few minutes but went back down. I started to think that a military craft should show up soon and sure enough one did. This "thing" was moving fast acting weird going left and right appearing wobbly up and down and was quiet. The only thing I could hear was a slight crackling sound like a fuse after it's lit.
June 11, 2016 · 11:10 AM · DIAMOND
Laveen, AZ
About 11am, my wife and I were driving south on 51st Ave., heading towards South Mountain. We noticed a square/diamond shaped object with no lights to the southwest of us towards south mountain. I try to catch up to get a closer better view it seemed to move further away towards the mountains as it seemed to have gone from a square shape, into a narrow diamond then almost looked like into two individual objects and back into one. Then as we got to around baseline, it moved behind south mountain.
June 11, 2016 · 7:00 AM · SPHERE
Buckeye, AZ
Was standing outside at a cemetery, my whole family was there. I was looking up at planes (like I do often). I saw this object in the sky. My cousins and I flipped out when we saw this object change direction to the south and VANISHED. It made no noise, it was just a really shiny craft.
June 9, 2016 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Chandler, AZ
I ran inside to take the dog in the house and then came back out to finish looking. The red orb had disappeared. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 6, 2016 · 4:30 AM · SPHERE
Mohave Valley, AZ
At first I thought it was a planet or star, but as soon as I looked hard it moved slow at first to the right, then accelerated sideways, then stopped and barely moving. My wife at this time also witnessed the object. We tried to film it but it was to far in the distance. Note the most disturbing thing about this object was it at least three times emitted some sort of light under it that appeared to go to the ground where very small almost unseen dots of lights moving to the underside of the object. After observing the UFO for twenty minutes, or so, it just vanished.
June 3, 2016 · 2:05 PM · CYLINDER
Wittmann, AZ
Red cylindrical object, east of Wittmann heading north. Tumbling as it was moving north. It then disappeared. 1 minute later it reappeared further north for about 40 seconds, and then disappeared for good.