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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 5, 2015 · 1:00 AM · FLASH
North Mountain area, AZ
Driving home going west, viewed white flashing light/object in driver's side mirror that stayed in the same spot for at least 45 minutes.
August 1, 2015 · 9:21 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
We turned onto Country Club Way in Tempe, AZ, going south from Balboa, looked up, and saw an irregular formation of 10 red lights in the sky moving east. We got an iPhone photo that caught 4 or 5 (one dot is questionable) of them. The others had gone beyond our field of view before we could get a photo. While their formation wasn't a regular shape, like our military pilots fly, they were moving in sync with each other. They were small red dots, but not blinking like an aircraft's lights. We followed as best we could, but within ten minutes, we could no longer see any. Because Country Club Way is a residential street, we could see them much better than people driving on a main street, because of relatively less light pollution. One of us is a retired Army Intelligence Officer, with service at NASA on the Apollo Program, and a lot of other aerospace industry experience, and a graduate (masters) engineer. The other witness isn't trained in engineering, ! but reports the identical situation. ((CORRECTION FROM READER)) Hi, Report on 8-1-2015, time 21:21, Tempe. Looks like two versions with punctuation corrected on second one. Regards, ((name deleted)) ((END CORRECTION)) We deleted the second copy of the same report on 06FE16.
August 1, 2015 · 8:22 PM · FORMATION
Tempe, AZ
Traveling northbound on the 101, I spotted about 8 to10 dim red lights fly slowly overhead in a wide delta formation. The lights were small and spaced far apart traveling in an west to east direction over the US 60 interchange in between Tempe and Mesa, Arizona. The majority of the lights faded from view by the time my vehicle passed underneath, leaving only two lights visible from my vantage point. Very reminiscent of the Phoenix lights back in 1997.
July 25, 2015 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
My best guess is a drone. Three steady red lights and a blinking green with an erratic flight path. Clearly not a fixed wing or helicopter. Difficult to tell distance, it was seen over North Tempe, south of Continental St. and east of 68th St. It descended rapidly and vertically after a flight of about 4 minutes.
July 24, 2015 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Phoenix, AZ
I saw 3 crafts hovering over a mountain in San Tan Valley. The one flew over my head as I looked up I seen multicolors turning in a circular motion and the other two stood still.
July 23, 2015 · 8:20 PM · OTHER
Kingman, AZ
We just finished up doing yard work, & was about to go in the house. I happened to glance up to notice a passing jet airliner @ 8:20 pm. The sun had just went down behind the mountains so it was still real bright out yet. Just up higher & further out to the west of the jet looked like a very bright star to the naked eye. (I'm guessing the jet was heading to Los Angeles by its heading. I'm located 20 miles east of Kingman, Az, on Hwy. 66.) But it was way too bright outside for ANY stars to show. I told my wife to quick grab my field glasses! (We both saw the star) As I looked at the star with my field glasses, and zoomed in on the star, it was very apparent this is no star. This is the hard part... It had no wings, No distinguishable exhaust, just stationary. It glowed as the appearance of the night time moon, but its still very light out, so I guess it was reflecting the sun light. The weird part is, when I zoomed in and focused in on it, it appeared like two 1/2 moons one in front of the other, in other words, picture a 1/2 moon, but then another 1/2 but smaller moon in front of the larger 1/2. Now these were not moons, I have no idea what I was observing just sitting there up in the air not moving. I wonder if the jet that was heading West/Southwest saw it? Or anybody else for that matter. This object does not appear to fit any known UFO sightings I ever heard of?? Any ideas out there? This was not a balloon of any type either. Very Strange.
July 22, 2015 · 8:15 PM · LIGHT
Queen Creek, AZ
They veered off and disappeared. 15 minutes later we saw the lights go back to where they came from further in the distance and disappear. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 20, 2015 · 10:00 PM
Aguila, AZ
Craft higher than Commercial Jet & Larger, Faster & Brighter than Satellites. A Burst of Bluish white light suddenly appeared above the SE of Little Dippers “dipper”part. It looked like as if the “Craft” threw a BOOSTER on for a few seconds. It caused the craft to speed up, three times fast it was going. It head straight for the Northern Star. After and additional 5-7 seconds, Then its light went out completely. This was NOT a meteorite! It flew steady & straight, it had a consist (sic. constant?) light on, after it had the boost of a few seconds. Witness does not indicate a time or date for the sighting, and elects to remain totally anonymous. Hence, we are unable to contact the source, in order to confirm the time and date. We have assigned an arbitrary time and date above. PD
July 20, 2015 · 8:38 PM · LIGHT
Sierra Vista, AZ
I just got home from work leaving the store at 8:08pm and reached my home at 8:37pm to see in the sky what appeared to be a large ball of light that quickly raced across the sky. what made this not a falling star was that it traveled underneath the cloudline.
July 13, 2015 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Buckeye, AZ
One then two lights over my neighbor's house to the southeast of mine. Red lights turned off and one reappeared about 3 seconds later to the West. Over my neighbors across from me. Then turned off and reappeared just east again. A few minutes later, we saw 5-6 jets with it seemed like strobe light in the backs, flying in a row from North to South going East towards the direction of the red lights that were turning on and off and moving across the sky. The lights moved too straight, back and forth too fast. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be both quite objective in his description of the sighting, and sober-minded. We have changed the time above, to reflect a nighttime sighting. PD
July 13, 2015 · 9:15 PM · CHANGING
Tucson, AZ
First object was seen above a normal flight path of a airplane. After plane left area, the one object split into two objects, then randomly disappeared and reappeared, with two other crafts appearing to the left and right side of the two crafts.
July 13, 2015 · 4:15 PM · SPHERE
Tucson, AZ
I saw a black spherical shaped object moving easterly direction, first saw it when it was over Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, I would say it was moving at the same speed most of the air force planes fly, so maybe 400 mph, it was just below storm cloud level.
July 12, 2015 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Utting, AZ
When I looked in my rear view mirrors it seemed to be following my car staying at the same distance as I drove forward. Then I saw it turn into 3 blinking lights as if traveling up and down like an animated sign. Then the lights seem to turn toward me and get brighter all the while staying the same distance from my car. I got scared and did not stop to investigate and when I looked again the light had gone off
July 11, 2015 · 11:10 PM · CHANGING
Lake Havasu City, AZ
Last night at 23:10, my son came in house and woke me. He said, "You gotta come look." I went out look up lights mostly white but with red in them moving all over southern sky moving up down sideways at speeds that in no way were aircrafts from here. We watched for 10 mins, then I ran in house woke up my wife. She came out saw also, but she only saw for a few seconds and it took off.
July 11, 2015 · 8:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Mesa, AZ
3 fiery-colored lights in slightly bent line formation. Appeared to be triangular in shape, and did not flicker, stayed in same spot for several minutes until the top one dimmed, grew brighter, then dimmed again completely and began to take off at an alarming speed. Once flying away, it flashed subtly between red and blue, but there were no "plane wing" lights. Over the next ~5 minutes, the other 2 did the exact same.
July 9, 2015 · 9:45 PM · OTHER
Scottsdale, AZ
i saw 10 objects in the eastern sky with white and red blinking lights and they are not airplanes. They move back and forth. very creepy.
July 8, 2015 · 11:00 PM · FLASH
Phoenix, AZ
Caught full glimpse of what was a bright flash about a mile north east of phoenix airport no airport traffic at the time. Was a brilliant blue flash outward than a bright white body like. No transformers had gone off not a cloud in the sky. The white flash inside the blue was extremely bright. Have seen them once or twice prior some time ago. But this was best caught the entire flash.
July 5, 2015 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Mesa, AZ
Lights would Disappear and reappear. Multiple aircraft hovering/observing objects Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2015 · 12:35 AM · SPHERE
Chandler, AZ
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Sorry I missed your call, I was still stuck on july 4th, the event actually took place this morning 07/05/15 at 12:30am. Also this was definitely not a Chinese lantern, or anything like that, I've witnessed those being launched before and they're really slow, the object I saw was very, very high in the sky and then it just took off soo dang fast ive never seen anything like it ever before! ((END ADDENDUM)) Date may be flawed. We have attempted to contact the witness. PD
July 4, 2015 · 9:29 PM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
Myself and a few family members went to the Tempe Town Lake festival for the fourth of July 2015. We are enjoying our time and being very proud to be American. About 30 seconds before the fireworks stared we noticed a red light floating around where the fireworks are about to take place. While the show was taking place the light was stationary, then the light started moving from east to west. The object then stopped, and changed course and headed back to its original location. It then proceeded to move directly up and directly down, the object then started moving towards superstition mountains then disappeared. This craft was unlike anything I have seen and I was an aircraft rescue firefighter for the United States Marine Corps. I have seen very many aircraft from our military and other countries' military. This was neither, nor was it civilian, and I say that because, where the craft was located was directly in the flight path of Sky Harbor Airport. I have v! ideo
July 4, 2015 · 9:15 PM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
The object appears to move and stop suddenly and then fly away. It was in the flight path of Sky Harbor Airport.
July 4, 2015 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
On July 4th, 2015, at approx. 21: 00, we witnessed a light display above the eastern portion of the Catalina Mtns. north of Tucson, Az. We were sitting in chairs at the western edge of the Sabino Canyon parking lot and had just watched the fireworks display that Ventana Canyon Resort puts on for guests. The sky was heavily overcast over the mountains so when I saw a bright white light appear over the mountains just to the west of the radio towers, I thought it best to turn on my 5X night vision camera and see what it was and I began recording. It was actually 2 lights nearly together in a stationary position far out over the mountains which was easy to tell since the lights were in focus but the radio towers were not since they were closer even though still a few miles away. Immediately when I turned on the camera, there was a big blue flash near the right side of the lights. I then zoomed in on the lights and the 2 lights gradually became three in a perfectly spaced row. My camera was mounted on a tripod so the light appeared steady and not moving in the video and that can be gauged also by its relation to the top of the mountain seen below it. Clearly these lights were in the sky and are not on the mountain itself. There were big flashes of green lights both near the lights but also well away from them. Later a similar set of lights appeared out of nowhere next to the original lights to the left of them and when they did the original lights themselves flashed as a large green light. This second set of lights then began to disappear and became a single red light that could be seen moving towards the original lights before it went out. While trying to get my camera in a better focus there was suddenly a flurry of large flashing lights on all sides of the original lights. The original 3 lights continued to stay in the same place in the sky for a few minutes more and then my camera ran out of memory. The lights didn't do anything unusual after that but eventually just turned off abruptly. After about half an hour the lights came back on in the same location with one bright white light appearing and then 4 more gradually forming a straight line of lights. They did the same large flashes of light and they appeared to move independently from each other. Lights were seen suddenly appearing and coming from the sides towards the row of lights. This display lasted several minutes and then just like the first event they all went out like a light switch had been activated. I was with one other person who witnessed the events in a similar way as I did since we were both commenting on what we saw as it occurred. I wear glasses but my vision is very good. I'm 66 and am in retail sales. The other witness is in his 50's and is in the medical sales field. I've included my YouTube video with this report so feel free to post it on the NUFORC site.
July 4, 2015 · 2:45 AM · LIGHT
Mesa, AZ
Distance: Approx. 0.5 mile from observer, facing north Source: Periscope user broadcasting sighting, with over 28 live users watching at some time Observation Time: 02:45 to 04:15 approx Description: 3 lights observed over South Central Mesa, AZ, close to Interstate 60. 2 of the lights over each other but not perfectly (approx 10 degree off ) stationary. 3rd light bellow also at the same angle, this one is flashing and moving up and down fairly fast. All lights changing color from white, yellow and blue. Something lights fading but not at the same time. Top light and bottom light had a relation Ex: color change simultaneously and vanishing and coming back (but not all the time) this was observed about 4 time. Middle light not changing much and not at the same time as the other two. No sounds. Light just vanished without movement. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 1, 2015 · 9:00 PM
Goodyear (in flight), AZ
Two bright lights one larger than the other hovering over White Tank Mountain. The larger light had a aura around it. After 45 the lights vanished into thin air. The sky was a clear night. We suspect a sighting of Venus and Jupiter. PD