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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
January 26, 2016 · 7:05 AM · LIGHT
Queen Creek, AZ
We looked back at Venus, then look back at Jupiter and the ball of light was gone. We stared at it for a good 3 to 4 minutes wondering if it could be another planet, and remarking that it was in the wrong place for the planet alignment. We looked away for only a second, look back and it was gone. It had no movement nor did it have any flashing lights to represent an airplane or anything like that. It just looked like a very bright planet just above Jupiter in the western sky.
January 23, 2016 · 8:23 PM · CHANGING
Quartzsite, AZ
Each UFO had what looked like 4 lights on the bottom, each light was round changed from colors of red, green or white. Did not move fast made formation of 5 in shape of a triangle. The main one that was the closest went to the top of the formation, then the other 4 would show for a few seconds, maybe 10 seconds at the most. What was so strange is that it hoovered for approximately 30 minutes with a beam coming down from it. I have 2 good videos of this event if you would like to see it.
January 23, 2016 · 10:30 AM · EGG
Yuma, AZ
I am visiting my father, getting cheap teeth work done in Mexico. I live in Northern California, and have submitted to the NUFORC site 2 previous sightings from the 90's. I am a programs coordinator at my local non-profit teen center with science teaching as a background of my education. I was taking pictures of the big bright moon from my father's lot in Yuma. Playing with the iPad camera grabbing at the moon with my hand and silly stuff...switched to video and realized the lights near the moon were pulsing multiple colors...I was filming with my "selfie" camera which I believe has a clearer picture then the outward shot camera… After around 12 minutes of filming these craft, I moved towards the front of the lot to try to see it from another angle, but lost it...couldn't find it again then the camera shut off...2 craft hovering in place spinning, I couldn't see them with my naked eye. I can send you video if you would like.
January 21, 2016 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Phoenix, AZ
I WAS ON MY WAY ON THE FEEWAY LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW GOING NORTH OUT OF PHOENIX. IT WAS DARK GOING THROUGH THE CANYON, AND IT WAS A FULL MOON. AS I STARTED LOOKING IN THE SKIES, I SAW THIS OBJECT, JUST HOVERING, ABOVE THE SKYLINE, WITH THE FOOTHILLS TO ITS BACK. IT WAS HUGE, AND IT WAS NOT MOVING, JUST FLOATING, AND IT GLOWED A BEAUTIFUL BLUISH PALE LAVENDER. IT HAD SHADOWS ON THE TOP HALF OF THE CRAFT, THAT SHOWED STRUCTURE OR FORM LIKE SQUARE WINDOWS WITH THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE CRAFT SEPARATED OR IT WAS A DARK SHADOW ALL THE WAY AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE CRAFT. IT WAS SO THREE D LOOKING JUST, THERE IN THE SKY. I ASKED MY HUSBAND, AM I SEEING THINGS? DO YOU SEE THAT? WHAT IS IT? I SWEAR IT'S A UFO, I SAID TO HIM. HE FINALLY SAW IT AND SAID, "THAT IS REALLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, MAN," HE SAID. "THATS SCARY! IT WAS AN UFO. THE BEST I HAVE EVER WITNESSED."
January 18, 2016 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT
Scottsdale, AZ
Two very white bright lights were hovering over the city and/or native reservation. There were so many helicopters out, I would say probably seven roaming around. I described another similar incident that happened on January 6, 2016, that is more detailed.
January 18, 2016 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Goodyear, AZ
Lights first appeared as three in a triangle formation, quickly followed by approximately12 others in tight formation. All with bright orange glow. All quickly disappeared one by one, some first making a 90 degree turn to the north. Both observers are adults, intelligent, and healthy sceptics.
January 14, 2016 · 1:00 PM · OTHER
Jerome, AZ
Nothing visible to naked eye. 4 objects appeared in photo taken atop the mountain side town of Jerome, AZ. Each has same pattern of dots that glow like lights underneath. 4th object seems to be at side view angle. Appear to be boat shaped, pointed at one end, squared at the other end,bowing out at the sides. The four objects appear to us to be LED lights, perhaps reflected off the interior of a plate-glass window. Perhaps ceiling lights?? PD
January 13, 2016 · 4:20 PM · OTHER
Phoenix, AZ
While waiting for the light rail in downtown Phoenix, I looked up and saw a small speck (whitish dot) in the sky above but slightly northwest of Phoenix. Altitude was hard to judge, but could have been from 15,000MSL to 50,000MSL(?) ((not knowing its true size, it is very hard to determine altitude. But it was not low. By my eyesight it looked as if it was one or two (or maybe three whitish dots).)) It did not move as an aircraft would, it stayed within a very small area within space. I took two pictures with my phone (not video though) and when expanded there showed three whitish orbs (very small) in two different formations. This was all against a clear blue sky.
January 13, 2016 · 4:30 AM · LIGHT
Peoria, AZ
Thinking maybe it was a piece of a meteor or space junk falling to earth, I stopped to look and there was no fire ball or tail. It flew over a house not to high up and stopped approximately in front of me about 50 foot foot in the air and approximately a 100 feet in front of me it sat there about 6 or 7 seconds where I could see some dark images as I looked at it straight on or even blurry
January 12, 2016 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Lake Havasu City, AZ
At 20:30 we let the dogs out to go to the bathroom. In the sky above us we noticed a large orange sphere traveling from North to south east. After viewing for three minutes it fast disappeared. My wife tried to take a moving picture with her phone and was right on it, after she tried to play it back and there was no picture at all, just one flash and nothing.
January 11, 2016 · 9:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Gilbert, AZ
Driving in Gilbert. Looking to the west towards south mountain there was three lights equally spaced forming a triangle shape. It was quite large. It seemed to fade in and out, but kept shaped.
January 8, 2016 · 10:15 PM · LIGHT
Surprise, AZ
5 amber lights floating low in the sky with 3 in a triangular shape and shifting positions. Lights slowly disappeared one by one, until no longer visible.
January 6, 2016 · 7:30 PM · CHANGING
Scottsdale, AZ
((male name deleted)) and 110th st. Scottsdale, AZ, higher than the rest of the valley 7:30-8:30pm I stepped outside to see three large bright lights in the sky in a triangle formation. I was driving but every time I looked they had rotated while staying in a triangle. If you had a full moon and put a point on the top and sides of a full moon, I would say this is how far they were from one another. By the time I pulled over there was only one light left; I told my boyfriend I wasn’t going anywhere until this light disappeared. It was not above me in the sky, but south of me low on the horizon. Another bright light reappeared nearby the other. One left its location and slowly crossed the sky. It decreased in brightness and traveled east to west. If you split the sky in 18 sections, it would cross one of these in a little less than a minute. Planes flew by but were fast and not nearly as bright as even the traveling UFO. The light they emitted was pure white. When they traveled they usually got dimmer. I took off my glasses and the only light I could see in the sky, including stars, were these lights. We starred at them freaking out with excitement for an hour. They would occasionally disappear and reappear in a nearby location. My boyfriend and I argued of what he thought was a plane at about 8 o’clock. It had two very dim white lights flashing very close in proximity and moved faster than the UFO’s before. I convinced him that it was a UFO because the lights were not consistent in spacing. They also would fly back and forth from east to west. Also I do not know if it was just me because I was wearing glasses, but they individually appeared to be elongated vertically. The light looked like it came to a small point and expanded to the rest of the light. It was very subtle, but he said he could kind of see it too. We ended up leaving before they were gone. At midnight I was back on the road and I could see one bright UFO. A couple minutes passed and it was gone; I didn’t see anything else this night.
January 2, 2016 · 9:35 PM · LIGHT
Black Canyon City, AZ
1/2/2016 21:35 A cold and partly cloudy night sky in Black Canyon City, Arizona. Which is twenty five miles north of Phoenix on I-17. I was leaving my house for work, driving west down the road. When I spotted three orange objects coming from the north flying above I 17 headed south. I stop and got out of my car to see what I was witnessing. Each one of the orange lights were at different altitudes and each orange light was acting differently when flying. The first orange light was the highest and look like it was flying straight. Then it shot straight up into the clouds. The second orange light was lower and was traveling slower than the first orange light. Then the scond orange light went up into the clouds at a fouty five degree angle and disappeared into the clouds. The third orange light was the lowest and the slowest. It look like it was taking it's old sweet time flying above I 17. Then the thrid orange light stared to climb slowly and all so disappeared in the clouds. None of the orange lights made a sound. I was about one mile from I-17 all I could hear was the traffic from I-17. I just stood there and said to myself, "What did I just see?" I know what airplanes and helicopters look like at night. There is a lot of air traffic fly over here.
January 2, 2016 · 7:15 PM · OVAL
Phoenix, AZ
At about 1915 this evening was walking dog noticed 2 bright red objects in western sky heading west one was following the other at distance of a couple miles trailing one was very bright red leading object was a little lighter almost white color moving not fast but a a decent speed than they vanished. Trailing one looked like it talking to the lead one with code flashing lights. Lead object would dim lights than go to bright white light.
January 2, 2016 · 4:00 AM · CHANGING
Tempe, AZ
If people are interested, I will go into more detail, but for now I will keep it short and sweet. Was up early for one of my 2 required Saturday shifts for work. Happened to go sit on my balcony to stargaze and relax, before heading in to work in a few hours. Saw what initially resembled the usual airplanes that come through to go to the Phoenix Airport nearby, however, this object quickly approached and I could tell it was much too large to be an airplane. It started out roughly saucer like with your typical yellowish white light, but then literally started to morph green, blue, red, orange, etc in a fashion such as fiber optics would look like. Still not that shocked, I continued to watch it approach from the north and it eventually completely stopped and just hovered, only making a few impossible maneuvers for any (declassified) man-made tech. To make things really interesting, as it hovered, it twice descended while dropping what seemed to be small disc like crafts with the similar cycling of lights the "mothership" had. The only reason I wasn't sure of how many came from it was because I was too focused on all of the helicopters and airforce jets sneaking up to get a closer look. The object hovered a good 30 minutes before this happened and I never took my eyes off it. It would morph and change from the saucer like shape to almost a crown or diamond type shape, but the color now stayed mostly yellowish white. When approached by what I believe to be a helicopter (that or a jet) it appeared to playfully recede at any probe too close to it. As the sun was beginning to come up, it lowered what looked like a few hundred foot "ropes" of light, 3 to be exact. The smaller craft that were closer to the ground sort of just hovering as well then slowly ascended up and merged back with the "mothership", all the while the jets and helicopters were EVERYWHERE. I mean they weren't making it obvious, but I could hear the helicopters and see the jets. Finally, the object made some crazy "skipping" like maneuvers and as it did so, one of the tiny little clouds that were in the sky came as if it was called over, and the object slowly dimmed and went higher and higher. It was the most insane thing I have ever seen. I am a college educated male, 25 years of age, and only drink on the rare occasion. Wide awake for a good 3 hours of witnessing all of these strange events. I really would like to see if anyone else witnessed something similar! I have always been somewhat of a believer, but still do not know if I am witnessing new experimental aircraft, or ET phenomenon. I am open minded and will not jump to conclusions, but this has me very, very intrigued. I will continue to watch that area of the sky in the same hours now to see if I can catch any more glimpses of what went on. Thanks for reading,
January 1, 2016 · 12:00 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Seen small round white object in sky over head, looked to be made of light. Moved in a zigzag then West for a short distance, then to the east and started to moved faster tell out of my site, moved over a large about of sky far faster then the plains do
January 1, 2016 · 12:15 AM · LIGHT
Glendale, AZ
On new years eve I was out with my daughter looking at fire works then all of a sudden we saw a large flash of light that light up the whole sky, it was not a firework. Then I notice 3 lights in a triangular shape moving across the sky from North to South across the western horizon. Then some lights would just go out, disappear and others would show up behind them and then do the same as they got to a certain point in the sky. Then there was large flash again that light up the whole sky and my daughter got so freaked out, she was really upset, she thought aliens were going to abduct us. I have a video if anyone is interested. We have attempted to contact the witness via telephone, but unsuccessfully, to date. PD
December 31, 2015 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Scottsdale, AZ
Both yesterday (12/31/15) and tonight (1/1/16) we have seen a star-like object in the southeast sky as we went on a walk. It caught my attention because it looks larger that a normal star and was twinkling different colors - blue, green, white, and red. It behaved like the star as it moved higher in the sky as the night went on. I lost interest as I thought it must have been just a star. Tonight I went for a walk with my parents and saw it again. I pointed it out and they thought it was very strange. My whole family lived hear O'Hare in Chicago for a majority of our lives making us used to aircraft. We got out the binoculars and four of us (me, my parents, my boyfriend) viewed it through the binoculars all seeing the same thing - distinct red, blue, green, white lights - my dad said it reminded him of LEDs because they were so vivid and distinct. I could also see the halo around the object changing color with the object. My parents said they've never seen an! ything like it. It was higher than the planes that had taken off from the PHX airport (south, southwest of where we are, which flew below within the same view). This is near 101 off Indian Bend Road. I am visiting my parents from Chicago. They said it is over the Native Amer Reservation east of Scottdale. I would like to know if this could be disproven, but everything man-made that flies doesn't really fit. Also, it doesn't fit as a star considering the distinct lighting. I also have video, but it's so grainy and it only looks like a star. Please let me know if anyone has an idea or if you would like video. Sighting of the star, Sirius. PD
December 29, 2015 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Cottonwood, AZ
Spectral rainbow multicolor. Purple, greenish, blushing. Looked like a Kershaw multicolored knife.. Zipped back and for at these sharp 33-45 degree angles like triangle track. Shot striaght up. Only lasted a few seconds less then a minute shot straight up no sound at all. Buddies just out coyote hunting. Dad, me, brother, brother in law. Looked car sized like my Subaru. I think only about 1/2 mile a way. Moved so fast for such little time couldn't find it in my scope for a closer look. No time for spotter scope or cell phone. I don't think it was more then maybe 20-40 feet in the air. It's so dark out there. No good way to really figure the height. Not very high up. Zip zip zip poof up and gone. We decided if we see it next year at that hunt we are gonna bring it down for you. We are all hunters, pretty decent shots with some good high fire power. So next year we are gonna take a few black tip/ armor piercing rounds. We will get you some solid proo! f of a ufo craft and maybe a alien body also. Heard you on Heather Wade MITD. My wife told me to report it. Talked to my brother. We decided to now Hunt UFOs and not be UFOs hunters 😉 Background of the group. Life long family of hunters, dad is an old retired USN p3 orion pilot. I am a nurse, brother is cpa and brother in law works for railroad.
December 25, 2015 · 5:00 PM · SPHERE
Globe, AZ
Got home late afternoon, spotted nine large bright lights in a row fixed, motionless. The bright white lights seemed to be encapsulated keeping them together. I took a pic with my new phone and decided to record but did not know how. I went inside my home to try to figure out how, couldn't and stepped back outside. Took another and looked down to my phone, looked up and it was gone.
December 24, 2015 · 11:38 PM · LIGHT
Avondale, AZ
After filing an initial report, I went back outside and to my surprise I saw one more object with the same orange/salmon flickering light. This one was moving southwest to northeast at a constant steady speed. The object was almost straight above slightly to the west out of the moons light. No sound was present again and altitude was hard to determine as there were no clouds in the object's immediate area. This time however just before the object disappeared the light changed color. It went from bright orange/salmon to deep dark red back to orange/salmon then finished up deep dark red then vanished. The time for each color change was about a second.
December 24, 2015 · 10:45 PM · CIRCLE
Show Low, AZ
I was laying in my bed looking through the sky light because I couldn’t sleep when this small craft suddenly appeared very high in the sky. It then proceeded to zoom around in a very erratic manner behaving like no airplane or other craft I have seen before and after awhile it just zoomed off incredibly fast. I also should mention that it was a very bright object
December 24, 2015 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT
Avondale, AZ
The one object in the lead was moving faster than the other and picking up speed until it suddenly vanished. The second object moved at a constant speed and started to fade out when it went up through the clouds. These were not the flares sometimes seen in the southwest valley dropped by the military for training purposes as they were climbing in altitude quickly. Skies were partly cloudy and cloud base was approximately 5000 to 7000 ft. There was no sound present. I shot a video with my Samsung Note 3 but had trouble getting the phone to focus before the objects disappeared.