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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
December 30, 2022 · 7:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Chandler, AZ
Outside with the dogs, looking up and saw a light going back and forth. Looked like a spotlight, but it was going very fast. It stopped moving to reveal 3 lights in a triangle shape and then immediately changed direction going perpendicular to the original back and forth trajectory. Was out of sight in seconds after it changed that direction. Was cloudy, seemed like lights were illuminating the clouds from above. It was close to a small airport, but I could see other planes below the clouds perfectly fine. The lights were way higher up than the planes in the area.
December 30, 2022 · 9:03 AM · CYLINDER
Sierra Vista, AZ
No sound, no con trail, moving very slow, craft came from Mexico border into Arizona over highly restricted Airspace where no aircraft have ever been seen flying to include military aircraft. no wind, sunny morning, observed this ssighting for about 3 minutes, had craft in sight until it was just gone, did not fade into the distance. The CBP Aerostat Blimp was in the air and the craft can be seen in the video behind and to the right of the blimp, taken with iphone camera, please excuse any language. Pausing the video I have zoomed in on the image and it has no indications of modern aircraft. This is my second sighting "report" of UFO's in the same vacinity.
December 24, 2022 · 5:40 PM · TRIANGLE
Tucson, AZ
Object appeared to have 1 head light which was bright white. It also had two back lights which were dimmer and yellow/off white. Pierced in and out of atmosphere heading northeast.
December 20, 2022 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Tucson, AZ
Woke up at approximately 2AM to use the master bathroom. We live on land with no tall structures nearby. A long rectangular window is above our bathroom sink. Got up to use the restroom and flashing lights caught attention. Out the window was a giant glowing sphere with lights spinning around the circumference of the sphere. Sphere was stationary in the sky, no movement. Lights were various colors but non repeating. Dazzle like effect. Went to tell husband and object was gone on the return. It appeared to be over a small neighborhood to the south of us.
December 14, 2022 · 6:33 AM · UNKNOWN
Gilbert, AZ
An object appeared to the northeast while driving North on Val Vista in between Chandler Heights and Ocotillo at approximately 6:30 AM in Gilbert, AZ. It only lasted a few seconds, and my initial thoughts were maybe a "shooting star", however it was too close (distance seemed in our immediate airspace, similar to an airplane) or maybe a firework (however, it was rather fast and there was no explosion).
December 13, 2022 · 10:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Buckeye, AZ
My neighbor and I were watching the meteor shower and we saw a large black triangle with 2 orange lights move across the sky. Was not as high as airplanes, was significantly bigger. So silent, it almost seemed as though it absorbed any sound around it. Moved in such a smooth way, different than anything I have ever seen. I could not look away, I was so mesmerized.
December 11, 2022 · 6:33 PM · CIRCLE
Bullhead City, AZ
There were a grouping of three very large lights. Bright white circular objects that moved through the sky. At one point all 3 of the objects converged on each other to make one massive light. At that point I began to record them and a small plane or helicopter flew under it and gave you a sense of the enormity of the objects.
December 7, 2022 · 6:36 PM · SPHERE
Tempe, AZ
Hi. back on December 7th 2022 I was in Tempe delivering and I noticed a glow at the bottom right hand of the Moon so I stopped, pulled over to take a picture and in the span of 1 minute these are the photos I took.. I didn't recognize the larger glow off to the right at first until it moved.. I'd like to know what you guys think? I never edited any of the photos themselves all I did was add the caption to to list the order of the pictures and what was going on at that time. text or email me anytime. Https://photos.app.goo.gl/njC8P1D84TXnoJ5Z6
December 1, 2022 · 6:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Snowflake, AZ
I’ve never reported this incident to any authority. Also I couldn’t get the date I waned to enter. The closest I can come up with is late September 1968. I was in the early fall of the year. My mother was setting the table while dinner cooked in the oven. The sun was just about to set when she remembered there was a load of laundry on the line to be brought in. She handed me a basket and sent me out to get them. I was about a Jr in High School at the time. The clothes line was on the west side of the hill our home was built on. I remember squinting and shading my eyes as the sun was so bright going down. The sky was decked out in oranges and yellows as the sun set. I put the basket on the ground and started taking the clothes off the line with a shake and a fold of each one. Suddenly the strength of the rays from the sun became less and I was glad to be rid of most of the blinding light as the sun went down. I glanced up and was shocked to see a small triangular shaped UFO coming up out of the hill between ours and the Jr High. Was it coming up from the West side of the hill or the middle of the hill, I couldn’t tell? It looked like a mirror but I couldn’t see any reflection in it. There were no lights or other items on it. It continued to rise up blocking more and more of the setting sun as it rose. I glanced to the right of the hill and could see that cars were still driving up and down Main Street and wondered why people weren’t stopping. It seemed to me that the object was very heavy as it continued to rise so slowly. I eventually saw the bottom of the triangle and the object appeared to be about 2/3 the size of the entire hill. After the object was in full sight it rose slowly for another few seconds and completely blocked the suns rays from my eyes. I could still see rays shooting out from each edge of the triangle which had become quite large by then. Suddenly it zoomed straight backwards toward the West and the setting sun. Then in a flash the rays of the sun were back in my face and the triangle was completely gone. I ran to the house where my family was seated around the table to ask if they saw it. The window shade had been pulled down to block the blinding light of the setting sun. I had been the only one to see it. I waited a few days wondering if we would hear reports from anyone else but nothing. The only thing I have been able to come up with is that I saw another dimension of time. The date and time are estimated. If you go to Google earth at the Jr High you’ll see the 3 small hills to the East on our property. The UFO rose from the one closest to Main St.
November 25, 2022 · 5:20 AM · OTHER
Probable conventionalBuckeye, AZ
That morning I was on my way home from work when I noticed a long string of lights hovering over my neighborhood. I lost sight of the lights and thought nothing of it until I parked my car and looked back up in the sky and noticed that the lights were still there, just at a different angle. I walked up the ramp of my deck and just watched thinking I was probably just seeing the starlink satellites when I noticed that the lights were the shape of squares. Still being dark out, it looked like on the left was what I can only describe as a rounder part of whatever I was looking at as it looked like the lights warped just a little bit before continuing down. It creeper me out quite a bit as these lights seemed to get closer and closer and the lights gained more definition and I could see shadows moving inside the lights themselves as the lights continued moving south. I eneded up calling my wife outside but she was still waking up and didn't give it much thought. I eneded up taking a photo of it just to be sure I wasn't making it up. Unfortunately it's not that great of a photo. But after a couple of minutes it picked up speed and I lost sight of it. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Probable]
November 23, 2022 · 2:45 AM · SPHERE
Huachuca City, AZ
The craft was massive, comparable to the size of the moon, slightly bigger. My husband and two teenage kids saw it and couldn't explain what it was. It looked like a dark plane, half Illuminated by the moonlight. Best described as The Star Wars Death Star. I took a photo with my phone hoping to capture it. I had to increase the brightness in my photo to make it more visible. We are still baffled at what we saw. It has not been visible again in the following nights.
November 19, 2022 · 10:02 PM · LIGHT
Sun city, AZ
I was walking a friend of mines dog, which is not uncommon for me to do. It wasn’t too late at night, for me at least, for Sun City maybe. It’s a 55+ retirement community. As I was walking, though, I noticed that things just seemed weird that night. It was eerily, eerily quiet. I mean, there was no one outside. I didn’t see any cars, there were no planes. Typically there are at least jets occasionally going to Luke Air Force Base. Nothing, it was just so still and quiet; other than a little bit of a breeze. Even my friends dog was acting strangely. I usually take both of my friends dogs, but the one dog refused to go. He didn’t want to go, I’ve never had that happen. They always both love to go. As we were walking, I noticed the dog wasn’t pulling on the leash and wanting to go ahead like he usually would. He stayed right next to me the whole time, to where I was almost tripping over him as I’m walking. I always like to look at the stars and use my app to try and identify different stars and things and as I look up, I saw this bright, bright light moving across the sky. As I stopped to look at it, I got my phone out because I knew this was no satellite or Star. I figured it was a planet or something much brighter. I was going to try and identify it with the night sky app. I couldn’t find anything on my phones Star chart that would explain this light and as i’m looking at it, then back at my phone, it stops moving. I got a strange feeling and felt like it had stopped and was looking at me. It was like it knew I saw it and it saw me. And after it stopped, I started recording on my phone because I’m like thinking no one‘s gonna believe me. This is crazy. It’s hard to capture in the video, but at the time seeing it live was so different. It was changing colors rapidly and it almost looked like it was pulsating or had maybe an electric charge. It looked like what id imagine a giant electron or particle or some thing would look. It seemed very energetic and changing colors and spinning. Then there were other smaller lights that were kind of passing in the background and I’m not sure if they were satellites or what they were but they were smaller than this light and appeared to move with it or toward it. Then it appeared to start moving again, and at one point in the video, it kind of stops and instead of changing colors rapidly it stops and it becomes very very bright and then dims down a little bit and then starts changing colors again. It was very strange. Then it accelerated and took off and started moving more quickly; more like how it was moving in the beginning when I first saw it. I took a short video at first because almost as soon as I started recording I had to stop because I thought something was wrong with my phone, the video was coming out strange, in that the sky seemed to be moving separate from the background house in video. So I stopped and started another longer video but I noticed the same weird effects in the video. I don’t know how else to describe it but that it seemed that the sky was moving separate from the ground where I was recording. Overall, it was a very strange night and I just remember the quite. No bugs, no cars, nothing. The quite was so noticeable because it’s usually constant background noise in the city where I live. Always background cars, planes, bugs, coyotes, owls etc. not this night though.
November 18, 2022 · 6:00 PM · CIRCLE
Payson, AZ
At first, assumed they were military helicopters with how the were following each other (line and spacing) No sound, No red blinking lights, appeared to be orange balls. Slow moving, each one would get to the same spot in sky (sundown, sparse cirrus clouds), pause a few seconds, then appeared to move "up", dim and twinkle a bit, then fade out completely. Each "orange ball" respectively did exactly the same once they got to same spot as the first orange ball, until all six were gone. Seen by neighbors also.
November 17, 2022 · 8:51 AM · SPHERE
Casa Grande, AZ
I was walking my dog in an open field at about 0830-0845. Can't be sure of the exact time. The sky to the north was clear. To the east were some scattered clouds. I did not see or hear any aircraft in the sky at this time. As I walked, I looked up and a round object appeared at about 1100 o'clock in front of me. It was very bright and definitely round. There was no noise or contail. At first, I thought it was an aircraft. But dismissed the idea being that I never saw an aircraft reflect sunlight in perfectly round shape. After a about a minute or less the object had a line or a beam of light coming out of it at about its 100 o'clock. Then in a split second it was come. There was nothing in the sky that I would see for miles. I'm sorry to say I didn't get my cell out fast enough to get a video.
November 16, 2022 · 1:40 PM · TEARDROP
Sun City West, AZ
Was driving down the road and looked up and saw what I thought was a silver hot air balloon. I was driving with my mom but didn’t say anything right away. It only was seen for a few seconds. I waited a few minutes and the said something to my mom. She then proceeded to tell me she saw the same thing , but didn’t want to tell me because she thought I would think she was crazy.
November 16, 2022 · 1:32 PM · CIGAR
Scottsdale, AZ
I was driving along mountain view and via Linda when I noticed something really reflective and shiny in the sky. It was very odd and out of place to see, especially considering it was the middle of the day when the sun was out and at its hottest/brightest. It looked like a cigar-shaped, bright silver object that just floated in the sky, completely motionless. I couldn't hear any noise coming from it either, like you typically do when you see a plane or drone. Then when I glanced down at my phone for maybe 2 seconds to see the picture that I posted here, when I looked back up it was just completely gone. Any type of man made aircraft would have slowly moved out of sight until it was too far away to see and it wouldn't have just completely disappeared in 2 seconds from that distance. I have actually seen something like this before, about a year ago, with other people who witnessed it too. It had the exact same physical characteristics and was also silent and motionless in the sky for seconds until it just completely disappeared. I don't have pictures of that experience but it looked almost identical.
November 9, 2022 · 8:30 PM · LIGHT
Peoria, AZ
I was standing outside smoking a cigarette when I saw the lights appear low on the horizon. There are no mountains there. The lights appeared one at a time until a row of 4 was formed. It did not move but it just hovered there for about 5 seconds and then faded away from the left to the right. It appeared again 5 minutes after the first appearance, doing the same thing it did the first time: red lights turning on one by one until 4 were seen and then they disappeared going left to right. The third time it occurred about 5 minutes later and the red lights were in a much different part of the sky, but when the lights came on they were not moving in the sky, just stationary. I few minutes later we saw jet crafts apparently scanning the area, going back and forth. I know Luke Air Force base is out in that direction so I thought they may have seen something in the sky as well and tried to send out keys to look for it. I had a witness with me for the red lights and another witness to see the jets surveying that area shortly after the appearances.
November 6, 2022 · 3:24 PM · CHANGING
Tucson, AZ
I was driving south and while at the stop light, from a distance in the blue sky appeared 1 white object. Seemed to get bigger then showed a white smoke tail. Behind it appeared another object but more transparent. For a while the object headed east then toward north as coming to me. It proceeded toward the east, then disappeared from my view.
October 31, 2022 · 3:40 AM · LIGHT
Show Low, AZ
I’m still shaking! Just saw (approx 3:40am Oct 31 2022) a MASSIVE bright green light in the sky trailing something moving incredibly fast. In Show Low above HWY 60 and Bourdon Ranch Rd. I’ve never seen anything like this. So incredibly bright and huge and FAST. The most bizarre part is, as I was pulling into my driveway 10 min later, there was another object on the exact same trajectory but a cylinder-ish shape with no neon lights or tail. Still can’t wrap my head around it and hope others saw it too!
October 27, 2022 · 6:25 PM · OTHER
Tucson, AZ
The object was moving very quickly and kept fluctuating in light and also had this aurora around it as it was moving and ended up vanishing out of thin air.
October 27, 2022 · 6:21 PM · OTHER
Safford, AZ
I took a picture of a Space X Falcon 9 rocket and am mystified by 4 objects in close association with it – they do not look like Starlink satellites, or any other kind of satellite. The rocket was loaded with 53Starlinks and my photo was taken in SE Arizona 7 minutes after its launch from California. The objects are identical with one another, and appear a bit like a plane, with a main body and a wing structure. Two of the objects, the most conspicuous, are located on either side of the crescent moon, with a third one above and slightly to the left of the one glowing green, and a fourth one in front of the rocket. Taken with a iphone 13 camera. I posted the photo on Facebook and no one had a clue what they could be, and I emailed the photo to the Media department of Spacex but have not heard back.
October 27, 2022 · 6:20 PM · UNKNOWN
Tucson, AZ
It looked like a large missile entering the atmosphere. It left multiple trails and was extremely bright.
October 27, 2022 · 6:20 PM · OTHER
Sierra vista, AZ
Going across the western sky in sierra vista Arizona, headed south, the bright light went out and Vanished..
October 27, 2022 · 6:19 PM · FIREBALL
Kingman, AZ
Seen from the parking lot of Cerbat Elementary school, Jagerson Rd. in Kingman Arizona between 6:17 and 6:26 P.M During Cerbat Elementary School's "Trunk or Treat" Halloween event, a comet-like object came very slowly from the NW (roughly the direction of Las Vegas,) changing directions and in one instance doing a loop, leaving a jet-like "vapor trail" in it's wake that lasted until the light faded and it was dark and no longer visible. I'd have thought it was something from the Air base in Vegas, but I can't think of anything that would move this slow, this low, cause the large comet-tail, yet move like it did and change directions! It was late dusk, and it moved within a finger's width of the thin crescent moon from my vantage point (Tuesday was new moon.) To the naked eye it appeared to be a comet with a *large* flaring tail like you'd see on TV of comets in outer space. Holding up my finger did not obscure the end of the tail it was so big. It appeared to be significantly lower than the average altitude (jet stream) of a jet liner (by perhaps half) and moved VERY slowly across the sky into the SE. At first there was enough twilight that the tail appeared almost like frosted glass. Hundreds of people standing in line saw this. It was a pretty good size, and I'm in my 50's and have sky watched my whole life, and I've NEVER seen anything like this. It moved WAY too slowly to be a shooting star, and those don't do loops and change directions. The "vapor trail" appeared to almost zig-zag in it's trajectory, do the loop, then turn more southernly. From what I *personally* observed after my grandson ran to the car and pointed it out, it actually looked at first like it was coming closer into the near atmosphere, then slowly regained altitude. During the 5-6 minutes I watched it, the size of the main body did not change size as might be expected from a large asteroid burning in the atmosphere, and the tail was consistent in length for the duration. About 30 seconds before when I estimated it would leave visual range to the SE, I lost sight of the tail, and I thought it's direction changed again and the tail was now directed at me. Within another 1-2 seconds I lost sight of anything at all except the vapor trail-like marking in the sky back to the NW illuminated by moonlight and the only analogy I can give is almost like low hanging autumn clouds, but only where it had traveled. There was no other jet activity in the sky I could see (and again, they would have been significantly higher) and the object appeared from as much as I could see to be round-ish, but any actual shape was obstructed by the air-disruption around it that caused the comet-like tail. It was absolutely astounding looking, and when I caught sight of it I thought it would just streak across the sky, but it moved SO slowly I told my husband "I don't think that's a meteor, look how slow it's moving" and he agreed. Then we pondered if it was some sort of rocket, but again, it moved too slow for what I would expect even those to move. I'd have taken out my camera if I hadn't been absolutely amazed by it trying to figure it out. I had my phone right next to me, and in hindsight I thought I should have taken a picture, but with the 100's of people there, I'm sure someone got pics and maybe a video or two. If it was a large close meteor, it had to have been of a big enough size that if it had made contact with the earth it would have taken out all of Kingman. But again, Meteors and Comets don't zig-zag and do loops..........