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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.
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November 14, 2014 · 2:15 PM · CYLINDER
Chandler, AZ
On 11/14/2014 at 2:15 pm, I witnessed a black cylinder shaped object floating in the sky at the Interstate-10 entrance on Chandler Blvd. in Arizona. I did not have a chance to pull over and study it very closely because I was waiting to turn left at a red light. From inside my car it appeared to be about 1 to 2 feet in length and it was vertical. I was about to turn left (west) on the I-10 freeway when I noticed the object in the North sky sitting low and motionless above oncoming traffic. It was definitely not a balloon. It was low enough to tell there were no strings attached and the object looked really solid. That is, it wasn’t bobbing or weaving like a balloon. At first I thought it might have been a drone but there were no propellers or wings. There were no lights on it that I could see. I couldn’t tell if it was making any kind of sound because I was in the car. There were no streetlights or power lines near it so it couldn’t have been attached to anything. However, there was a street light about 20 yards in front of it and it appeared to be hovering at about the same height, maybe a little higher. No one else seemed to notice it. That is, no one pulled over to take a closer look. Was this a drone? Has anyone seen something similar or am I going crazy? I’ll check again tomorrow on my way home from work to see if it’s still there. Although I doubt it, I drive the same route every day and this was the first time I’ve ever seen something like this. P.S. My mom has had multiple UFO encounters over the years. I’m in my 30’s and this is the first experience I have ever had. I’m usually the smug skeptic that rolls her eyes at these sorts of stories. Maybe I should change my tune.
November 14, 2014 · 2:45 AM · FIREBALL
Sacaton, AZ
I witnessed a bright green fireball falling almost straight down, trailing a bright green trail while driving east on I-10 between Sacaton, AZ, and Casa Grande, AZ, at around 2:45 am. It was a quick 1 or 2 second sight before it went behind a small mountain I was driving past. I work nights so I was fully awake and aware at the time. I would write it off as a spectacular green falling star except I had seen this same thing back in 2007. In 2007, I was driving south on I-25 just south of the CO & NM state line when I witnessed the same event. The only difference was that in 2007, the area was completely open ranch land with rolling hills. As I approached the area I thought it had gone to ground, I witnessed a green glow in the pre-dawn sky. After I got closer, I realized the bright green ball of light or fire was hovering around 30-40 ft above the ground. It had a conical shape light extending from the green ball to the ground that reminded me of a street lamp shining on the ground. I'm not positive, but I believe the cone shaped light was not green but white or yellow. As I came over the last hill to where the green ball and cone light were, where I intended to try to photograph with my cell phone, it had disappeared. Unfortunately the green ball & tail I observed last night went down behind that small mountain so I did not see if it hovered as it did the previous time. I do know that there were a few houses or small ranches in the area, as well as other traffic driving both directions on I-10 so there is a good chance someone else may have observed this event.
November 13, 2014 · 10:00 PM · FORMATION
Tucson, AZ
Looking in west horizon from ramp of I-19 and Valencia; three disc shaped objects approx 100 yards in length each and split approx 200 yards in distance creating a formation and composing a sequence of alternating on - off lighting amongst each other. Lightning was yellow and appeared in a static like display. After about a minute, the lights faded and disappeared
November 11, 2014 · 12:00 PM · CHANGING
Tucson, AZ
Orbs/ discs coming from the direction of the sun. Appearing and reappearing in different locations. Only visible with binoculars. They seem to emitted silk looking strings. They seem to fly erratic like, pausing often. Flickering, and changing shapes. They fly in and disappear over particular areas. There are so many of them, I stopped trying to count. It has been going on since the eclipse. That's the day I noticed. When clouds get near, they seem to leave. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 10, 2014 · 8:00 AM
Coolidge, AZ
After doing our telescope research for hours, we finally caught a UFO LAST NIGHT on camera for almost 30 mins.. Also we witnessed it through telescope ... They are here, and have been here… We will contact the source, to request access to the alleged footage. PD
November 6, 2014 · 7:45 PM · CIRCLE
Buckeye, AZ
We have corrected the time, to reflect a nighttime sighting. PD
November 5, 2014 · 6:40 PM · CIRCLE
Peoria, AZ
The shape and color looked just like a star, however, it was two to three times bigger than a star! This is why it caught my attention. It began to navigate vertically at a fast speed. Then, while still hight up in the sky, it suddenly stopped and dissapeared! When it stopped, it appeared as if it had landed on something because the shape became a bit flat from the bottom and bit of splash of lights came out through the bottom right and left hand side, then it dissapeared. My husband saw an actual , odd shaped, spaceship about 2.5 years ago around the same area. He saw it during daylight! It was just up there, not moving! It disappeared while he was looking at it! He didn't want to tell anyone because he didn't want people to think he's crazy!! He's definately NOT crazy! ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Sorry. It was yesterday, 11/05/2015 ((END ADDENDUM))
November 5, 2014 · 2:00 PM · CIGAR
Flagstaff, AZ
I saw a small. silver, cigar shaped craft, slowly flying in front of Mt. Elden, heading to the south east. It was like a silver, oblong, oval, capsule moving slowly enough, it mimicked the speed of a hang-glider. It continued heading southeast, for about 4 and half minutes, until I looked away for a second and it was gone. I had seen similar shaped things, a couple of weeks prior, only at night and going in the opposite direction heading north west in the night sky and then slowly truning to the south west and disappearing. They were lit up silver, cigar shaped and there were 3 of them. At the time, I didn't think much about it, but now, having seen another one in the daylight, I kind of confirmed it for myself.
November 5, 2014 · 4:50 AM · OVAL
San Tan Valley, AZ
On 11-05-14 at approximately 0450 hours, I awoke to let the dogs outside in the backyard. It was a still night with no wind and a full moon. I immediately observed a single oval shaped object emitting blinking lights that changed color from red to white and back to red. The object could be seen between two mountain peaks from the San Tan mountain range which is on the Gila River Indian Reservation land. The object appeared to hover over the City of Coolidge, but its actual size could not be determined for certain. I watched the object for 10 minutes as it moved quickly up and down and side to side very quickly. I woke my wife up and we both watched it another 10 minutes together as it stayed between the mountain peaks. No sound could be heard during the 20 minute observation. I called the Coolidge Police Department later in the morning and they had no reports from citizens or calls for service about the object. It is unknown what it was. I tried to video record the object on my cell phone, but it was too dark and too far away to be recognizable. I have lived in the desert my entire life and have never seen anything like this before. It was not a helicopter, airplane or balloon.
November 3, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Cottonwood, AZ
I first notices a VERY bright light coming out of the South and proceeding more or less due North. Its lights were "intense" to say the very least. I have been around aircraft for many years in the USAF so I know what landing lights look like and the intensity of even the largest airplane. This had to be 5 times as bright (or brighter). Additionally, the lights were 2 seemingly separate but ? attached ? lights shining straight down. The leading light was the largest and the trailing attached light was 50% (plus) as bright. It seemed to be having trouble turning its lights of as they were fluctuating together but randomly. I perceived that fact only because I could think of no other reason for such random fluctuations. As it came overhead I noted that it was so low that it was in the region where local single engine aircraft would fly and NOT where Passenger/Military aircraft fly in our area. As it passed overhead I heard absolutely NOTHING, not anything. Total and complete silence. It lit up my yard and everything within a mile or more so that I could clearly see my dog who was in the back yard with me. It was casting so much light that I could distinctly see the shadows of my fence, my dog, and the house. Not distinctly but notably casting a perceivable shadow. The light itself was PURE white and there were no flashing lights (running light) with which I am extremely aware of due to being around airplanes of all kinds (including stealth). It continues STRAIGHT north and eventually either disappeared over the mountains to the north of us or was able to extinguish its lights. To indicate my professional credentials. I worked on the NASA Space Station Design Team (Technical Staff - Computers and such. I have been to most NASA sites stateside but not all. I also worked for U of Colo CASA/NASA research team and built the guidance system and wiring harnesses for 2 research rockets which were trying to locate the center of the universe. One rocket was fired from White Sands Proving Ground and the second was fired from Woomera Australia (NASA). It failed to release one stabilization chain and the rocket tilted and was quickly over ridden by staff to re-fire the explosive to release the chain. It flew toward Adelaide and crashed just on the outskirts. It never got into space to finish its mission. NASA took over from there and I have never heard back from anyone but understand that they did determine that the NASA mission did confirm the land coordinate as well as the White Sands data. The center of the universe is just beneath the "Eye of Horus". (Where the Gods watch man, from according to the Egyptians. I spend 1 -3 hours star gazing at night on more than 9 out of 10 nights and can spot all kinds of satellites and aircraft and can distinguish the difference easily. THIS ONE I CANNOT EXPLAIN. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 2, 2014 · 6:03 PM · UNKNOWN
Phoenix, AZ
I was filming at the state fair facing east of Phoenix when I noticed a light in the sky it was blinking red whit green. It was hovering staying very still, it hovered to the right n stayed still like no movement at all then after a few minutes it changed direction and went right sat still then a couple minutes later it went straight upward fast and stopped, hovered for a few minutes once again, and then just took off east and disappeared. There was a helicopter that came into view, but it was a lot lower then the object also a couple airplanes, you can clearly see its neither a plane nor a helicopter. Me and my husband both got everything recorded. There was also a few people behind us that noticed it. This happened 11/02/14 at 6:03 pm. I hope you can review and come up with some answers. Overall an amazing experience. I am emailing my YouTube video it's the only way I know how to send the video.
November 1, 2014 · 3:00 AM · DISK
Cascabels (near), AZ
While on a mule deer hunt, at approximately 0300, I woke due to digestive issues. I started walking toward the bathroom which was located north of the truck I was sleeping in. While walking, I looked up at the sky. The sky was overcast with altocumulus, turning into altostratus. The moon was waning, about half full, which was located behind my travel of direction. The clouds were not thick enough to block moonlight, which made the clouds very visible. While I looked up, I saw a blacked out disk silhouetted against the clouds, no lights, traveling at a high rate of speed from the NW, heading SE. I estimated the speed at about 500MPH. Similar to an F16 on a strafe run. The objects altitude I guessed to be 1000ft above ground level. After the object disappeared over the canyon rim, I looked for a follow up disk, which did not appear. The object never made a sound. I proceeded along my way as if I saw nothing. Until now, I had completely forgot about the event. This is what I find strange. I am a former Meteorological Observer, trained by the US Military. I have seen just about all military aircraft fly both in daylight and night. This was not one of ours. Why then, did I not act excited or scared by what I observed, or even remember the event till 6 months later? I treated it like a mundane viewing of an A10. Has anyone else had an experience similar to this? My meaning, observing something like a ufo, and acting like you didn't care about it, then forgetting the sighting. I had always wanted to see something I couldn't explain. My reaction is not what I expected it to be.
October 31, 2014 · 8:45 PM · FIREBALL
Gila Bend, AZ
((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) when I first spotted the very bright light, I thought it was a helicopter with front lights and tail lights. It seemed that low. I live near an emergence clinic and see quite a few helicopters with all kind of lights. But this was not one of them. However there was sound and the light just seemed to turn off. I viewed the light for not 1/2 second but for approximately 3 or 4 seconds. I can't tell you in degrees how much the light traveled but looking into the sky and using my thumb and pointer finger I would guess about 5 or 6 inches. I think what I saw was a meteorite. I have seen 2 in my time and they both had a long tail. If what I saw last night was a meteorite it did not have a long tail. Again using my fingers as a guide I would say the light was about 3 inches long. I don't know if this is any help to you but I was amazed by it. ((END ADDENDUM))
October 29, 2014 · 9:20 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
Witness provides no contact information. She does not indicate the units of the duration of the sighting. PD
October 28, 2014 · 6:15 PM · SPHERE
Tucson, AZ
A white sphere slowly descending straight down from the sky. It was way to slow for meteor and hand no flashing lights like a helicopter it would speed up a little then slow down like it was lowering itself from the sky. It continued this for a minute until it went behind the tree's . This was in the south eastern sky from the Sabino Canyon Area.
October 28, 2014 · 1:05 AM · LIGHT
Oracle, AZ
It looked like it was separating into two lights, so we retrieved some binoculars, we distinctly saw two lights alternating blue and white, and then kind of merge together. It didn't move for about forty five minutes, so we came inside to go to bed, twenty minutes later, I went to get a drink of water, and checked to see if it moved. It was still there, flickering, so I drank a glass of water, looked again, and it was gone. The little dipper was, from my point of view, about a hand length above the light when we first noticed it, and almost two hand lengths above the last time I saw it, so it did not move with the stars, it stayed in the same position as the stars moved ten to fifteen degrees.
October 27, 2014 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Sahuarita, AZ
Both objects were a sphere in shape that looked like a bright star. The "star" moved in a deliberate path towards the southeast, from the west. Despite the SE motion, the object seemed to effortlessly move/shimmy from left to right. There was no red light associated with the bright white; there was no jet noise. The first object faded out after traveling SE for approximately 2 min. After the first object, an F-16 came from the same spot where the first object was originally spotted; from the direction of the copper mine. A visible white and red light was accompanied by jet noise. Shortly after the jet flew east, another object like the first appeared in the same spot in the west, in the direction of the copper mine. The object was just as bright as the first but the light dissipated approx 5-8 sec, after traveling in a NE direction. Approximately 3-5 min after the light disapated, two F-16s appeared where the objects originated from the west. This time the jets were traveling significantly faster towards the east.
October 27, 2014 · 6:55 PM · SPHERE
Tucson, AZ
My wife and I were driving West on I-10 near Houghton Rd. exit when we noticed an array of twinkling lights hovering just SW of Tucson, Arizona. It was a clear night and we counted at least six white lights that were flickering at what seemed to be a much faster rate than ordinary commercial or military aircraft. My first thought was that maybe Tucson Airport (or possibly Davis-Monthan Air Force base) was experiencing some kind of incident on a runway causing air traffic to backup and circle in a holding pattern. This was not the case. Soon it was clear that these lights were not "flying" but hovering in place. Not too long after the shimmering lights had appeared, a larger, bright orange light materialized beneath them. Then things got a bit stranger. The large orange light appeared to split into two distinct orbs, each retaining the same shape and color of the original. In a matter of seconds the two lights merged together again into a single orb before vanishing along with the twinkling background lights. At this point my wife was more concerned about my staying on the road because I was starting to swerve in and out of my lane. The best that I could tell is that at least some of the twinkling lights flew into the larger orange light. I couldn't believe what we were seeing. As I exited Houghton Rd. we parked to see if the activity was still continuing. We saw nothing. As I started driving North on Houghton I looked into my rear-view mirror and saw the orange light appearing once again. It did a repeat performance- split in two and then melded back into one light before vanishing. Then that was it.
October 27, 2014 · 4:00 PM · CIGAR
Tucson, AZ
While taking photos of Finger Rock, a white cigar shaped object stayed in between a gap in the peak of Catalina Mountains in Tucson, Arizona. I took 5 different pictures of the same shot and the object didn't move left or right, but stayed in between the rocks and went out of sight without going behind the mountain. There were no clouds in the sky at that time.
October 25, 2014 · 7:00 AM
Apache Junction, AZ
White light hovering over superstition mountains. Seen it one minute then the next minute it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
October 24, 2014 · 8:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Coolidge, AZ
The sighting happened while driving home from Casa Grande, AZ, to Coolidge along a dark county farm land road. UFO sighting was seen in a light formation in the sky above the Pima Native American - Gila Indian Reservation, and Sacaton, Arizona. No sound. There was a haze around the dark triangular object. the object emitted 30 plus small lights underneath it in a formation, pulsating and moving very quickly in a straight line up and down and sideways Aerodynamically unlike any airplane, moving with impossible moves and speed. There were beams of light that occasionally pointed downward lasting a few seconds. Witnessed by my son and I. 14 additional people or witnesses saw the UFO. The large triangle UFO edges were barely visible but there were many lights darting beneath and around it. The lights on the edge pulsated from top to bottom, one at a time. We have numerous photographs. (Contact me if you'd like to see the images) It was more view-able or bright using peripheral vision.
October 23, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
My sister and I have been observing these lights throughout the summer, but only recently have we seen them nightly. They are small lights that flash white, red, and blue. Sometimes they move fast, sometimes slowly, sometimes remain stationary for extended periods. One night we saw them flying northwestward, some of them moving closer to others then moving away, then suddenly one shot directly upward and out of sight while another flew off in another direction and out of sight. On 10/23 some of the lights were stationary at various points in the sky (in a circle over Tucson) while others were flying either north or south. Sometimes the lights appear to change direction at a 45 degree angle.
October 23, 2014 · 7:30 PM · CHANGING
Maricopa, AZ
Saw a bright orange light to the southwest of Phoenix on the way to Maricopa. Thought it might be a plane flying low and away from Sky Harbor. Kept watching and suddenly it broke into about 5 evenly spaced pieces and then dissapeared! My husband was driving, and our 10 year old niece was watching it from the back seat. My husband and I work for a ministry and live in Maricopa. We were really shocked when it broke into pieces and then dissapeared. They did not fall to the ground.
October 23, 2014 · 2:00 PM · CIRCLE
Witch Wells, AZ
At approximately 1400 on the day of the sighting I was walking my dog on my 40 acres heading towards the top of the hill on my property when I just happened to look towards the cell phone tower located on the Witch Wells campgrounds. This tower as the Crow flies is about 10 miles away so from my point of view makes the tower appear about the height of my middle finger when I have my arm stretched out in front of my line of sight. The tower is right next to the Arizona Highway 191 and approximately halfway between the towns of Sanders and St. Johns. I noticed a silver object that appeared to be circular in shape and giving off of very bright metallic appearance similar to seeing a signal mirror in the Sun. The object from my point of view was perhaps no more than 400 yards South of the tower which from my angle it was right of the tower. It was also sightly lower in elevation than the top of the tower. I was fortunate to get another point of reference when I was a white box truck driving Northbound on Hwy 191. At that point I could easily see that this floating object was in appearance no larger than perhaps the cab of this box truck. I thought perhaps this was an optical illusion involving the Sun but as I shifted my angle in relation to the Sun and this object it remained. I drive the 191 quite often and have done so for over 2 years now and I can tell you that there is no structure of that kind or anything else that would explain this. I quickly moved to even higher ground to get a look but after turning my head for only a second the object had vanished. All I can say is that this object hovered for about 4 minutes in the same spot next to a cell phone tower right next to Arizona Hwy 191 and it was definitely some sort of metallic circular object that was of a decent size and then vanished.