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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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September 1, 2014 · 7:00 PM · DISK
Scottsdale, AZ
Every night and early morning there have been ufos ranging from 2-20 over the past four months. Two neighbors joked saying I was looking at stars until they looked through the binoculars I was using. A distinct saucer shape with "knobs" both on top and bottom can clearly be seen with red, blue and green rotating lights. Also noticable were little white lights darting around the object.
September 1, 2014 · 9:30 AM · TRIANGLE
Southwest desert, AZ
I want to report that I saw 3 brilliant bright orbs of light at about 9:30 am on September 1, 2014. 1. I was on a United Airlines flight from Denver to Orange County. These bright blinding lights were flickering out in the middle of nowhere in the Southwest desert. I believe the location was somewhere between the Grand Canyon and Nevada. It was in an area minus of any trees, rivers, or lakes. Only miles and miles of dry, arid brown and red soil in all directions which looked as it had once been the bottom bed of a deep ocean. The sky was clear on the morning of Sept. 1, 2014 and I saw three blinding bright lights flickering from a plateau. These lights remained grounded in a stationary position on this plateau which was in an uninhabitable arid area with no sign of life for at least a hundred miles in any direction. I saw no river or lake, on signs that once in the prehistory of the region that an ocean had been present. This region looks as if it can support no life. The lights were lined up one in front of the other with smaller blinking lights, just as bright blinking. The 3 large orbs of lights glowed steadily and did not flash. I wasn’t able to get a photograph of this sighting but I did go online to see if anyone else had witnessed this strange phenomenon in the middle of nowhere. I did find a video posted on youtube.com which appears to be exactly within the same region and of the same type of vehicles that I sighted. This sighting occurred on June 10 2014- and can be f! ound on Youtube under : STRANGE- THREE UNUSUAL BRIGHT LIGHTS The person recording this sighting also observed the lights while in flight to Los Angeles. The only difference with his sighting is that these lights he filmed appear to airborne whereas the lights I observed were stationary on a large plateau. Given that the lights were so bright it made it difficult to see to what these lights were attached. It did look as if they were attached to some large dark triangular shaped aircraft sitting all one in front of the other. I only know that the area where these parked vehicles were emiting the brightest light I have ever encountered most probably did not originate from any human being, as survival in that area would be next to impossible without the aid of aircraft to transport anyone to that region. This region is the most desolate and uninhabitable region of the U.S. and can not sustain life.
August 31, 2014 · 6:25 PM · LIGHT
San Tan Valley, AZ
My wife and I were driving East on Empire Rd, when we saw a huge white object just above the peak of the ridge of the southern extent of the Superstitions (Tonto Nat'l Forest) maybe 20 miles away. Looked through binoculars and the light appeared starlike and very large. To my knowledge there is nothing up there that would cause a reflection like that. After turning a corner and getting back in sight of peak again, object was gone. I have a clear view of that peak from my patio and have never seen that light before, so I do believe it was something other than a reflection. Also it wasn't moving, so unlikely to have been a plane's landing light.
August 27, 2014 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Phoenix, AZ
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
August 26, 2014 · 9:50 AM · DISK
Mesa, AZ
So, I am driving in the city of Mesa, Az, on 9:50 am Tuesday, 08/26/2014, it was the first cloudless day we had in last week, being that we are in monsoon season and have had a particularly rainy season this year. I see what at first appears to be a plane at a glance especially being that the area is a fly zone over falcon field and sky harbor. Then I realize I have never seen anything flying the opposite way of falcon fields mandated flight path allows. Another detail that had me for a split second assume it was a commercial or private plane was it looked white, and almost textured, but at this time I was looking up at it and may have been looking at the bottom. Then I noticed it was barely swerving slightly back and forth. So slightly that unless you stared at like I did it could appear to be going straight. This is when I was positive it was worth taking a picture at least. If my phone wasn't on verge of dying, I would have taken a video. As I got my phone ready to take the picture the object was getting further away quickly even though we were traveling same direction. When I took the picture I wasn't sure if I would be able to see anything. And when you look at the picture you almost can't see anything until you zoom in then you can see it quite clearly. So the time I observed it was about 2 min. approximately, OR the time it takes to travel 2 miles at 40 MPH might be a more accurate way to describe it. I snapped the picture, passed two palm trees, looked back up and the object in sky was gone. Then I saw a commercial airliner fly by and noticed distinct blinking light on the belly and obvious wing shapes which the object I saw was lacking. I turned east and by the time I got to my destination 2 miles up the road I observed 2 air force jets both flying straight up with the afterburners on and I remember thinking that they were going much slower than the object they were chasing. The shape of the craft appeared to be somewhat cigar shape and with the white I was seeing is why it looked at a glance like a jetliner but it quickly looked different in shape but I think this is because of the angle not that it changed in shape and became very obvious to me it was wingless. Half round in shape. The best thing I can think of to compare with is a bike helmet which is kind of funny to me because I imagine both the helmet and the ship were built with aerodynamics in mind.
August 25, 2014 · 8:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Tempe, AZ
I was walking him from the grocery store, when I noticed a bright orange object in the sky. I saw what looked like two streaks of light on either side but it trailed behind not changing length at all. I thought it was a plane on fire but then thought it was flying towards the ground at a weird angle and there were no trails of smoke, or anything. I also noticed a small object that wasn't moving. There was a single white light with orange around it. Not nearly as bright as the other. The first passed the second one and then stopped flying midair and became less bright. The smaller one then got brighter and started flying back up. They both eventually disappeared into mid air. I was so dumbfounded that I was only able to get a couple of pictures. They are from a distance and only seem like small bright blurry things in the sky. But I believe I saw two UFOs. I also saw a plane fly towards where one object disappeared a few minutes later there were lots of lights in the sky, but I can't tell if it was lightning but there were lots of lights in the same spot back to back.
August 21, 2014 · 3:50 AM · TRIANGLE
Mesa, AZ
A large, glowing, blue triangle-shaped object slowly crossed the sky right before 4 a.m. It was flying pretty low and it was close enough so that I could see a perfect triangle-shape. I followed the object until it suddenly disappeared.
August 17, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FLASH
Phoenix, AZ
Around 8:30 PM on Sunday evening 8/17/14 I was in my bedroom which faces the east side of South Phoenix area, near S. Mountain. When I looked out my window I saw what appeared to be a group of at least six separate very bright red, with light flashing, flickering objects, that basically looked like they were hovering, but then would move in different directions sporadically, flash, and then the lights would disappear and would reappear,again. My first thought that they were commercial jets taking off from Sky Harbor or landing at the airport. But, they (the unidentified objects) were stationary, hovering and the movement clearly wasn't any jet aircraft. My only other thoughts were that they may have been a lot of helicopters,possibly hovering over an accident on the freeway area. I alerted my adult daughter to go out into the backyard to see what she thought, and she thought initially maybe it was jet aircraft, but then came to the same conclusion that the ! objects were hovering, flashing off and on, and the movement couldn't be that of any commercial aircraft either. After about 10 minutes of continued watching the objects, it got dim and then the objects just disappeared. Witness provides no contact information. PD
August 15, 2014 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
I was driving down interstate 17 south from north loop 101. When I got on 17 from 101, I noticed a irrational and strobing blue light in front of us. I thought it might have been a drone or remote control helicopter at first, but the closer I got it didn't seem to act like either of those and I don't think drones have that type of light pattern. As I got closer to the cactus road exit we were getting closer to it, an eventually we passed under it. I have a 20 second video of the event I took with my phone. It was the last 20 seconds of the event.
August 12, 2014 · 1:30 PM · SPHERE
Green Valley, AZ
This incident happened on August 12, 2014 at about 1:30 PM. I work at a molybdenum mine south of Tucson, AZ. My co-worker was operating a D10 Caterpillar dozer on one of our waste dumps at an elevation of about 4300 ft. He was doing something on his I-phone when he glanced in his mirror and thought he saw the lights of a haul truck coming to dump a load. It took only a moment for him to realize the light was not attached to anything. At this point he turned in his seat and saw a bright light coming right at him, and had the good sense to take a picture of it with his phone. When he took the picture the object moved off at a high rate of speed across the open pit of the mine. The second picture was taken approximately two seconds after the first and he estimates by this time the object was two miles away over another waste dump. The photos were taken out the back and side windows of the dozer and the suns position was just about overhead. We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and he sounded to us to be quite serious-minded. We suspect the report is reliable, and two photos, showing a very bright object, were forwarded to our Center by the source. We will post the photos. PD
August 11, 2014 · 8:00 PM · FIREBALL
Grand Canyon Village, AZ
It was dusk, still quite light out, and my brother and I witnessed a very large moon size bright white light with a long tail arc across the sky right in front of us. It was so close that we thought it landed somewhere and actually drove around looking for evidence. We were driving on the main road out of Grand Canyon National Park on the south rim. When we looked behind us after the arc disappeared we witnessed two fighter planes accelerating strait up (and leaving contrails) from somewhere on the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
August 10, 2014 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Fountain Hills/Scottsdale/North Phoenix, AZ
On August 10th, 2014, at approximately 11:00 (23:00), I was pointing out the "triangle mothership" that is in the NE sky, when to the East was a shape-shifting "constellation". There were approximately 6 "stars" that shifted from a stem with bulb formation, to a polygon, and a straight line. Meanwhile, in the NE sky and the SE sky, two "stars" were syncing flashes. Red, Blue, Green. We then approached the West side of the building, and there witnessed more activity than I have ever seen. In the NW, there was a red cloud, where 40+ orbs were "dogfighting" and making extreme maneuvers. As this went on, there was a two light formation that went against the cloud movement at an incredible speed then stopped. At this time, two neighbors came out and asked what we were doing, to which we pointed out. Needless to say, they were in awe. At approximately 1:00 am, the moon started flashing bright white circles in an increasingly fast pattern, till a wave of white crossed the moon and ensconced the moon in a white light brighter than anything I've seen. It was almost as if the moon was "activated". The cloud formations at this time became extremely detailed, to the point 4 people all saw the exact images simultaneously. These were groups of human faces, most with looks of horror, and always with a Grey face behind them. At 1:22 am a triangular shape (think the flux capacitor) flashing in a haphazard pattern red appeared in the WNW sky, and approached us on a SE course. This object flew at incredible speeds for being that high up, and only produced a low hum. As it passed over the building we were all viewing from, it cast a white light over the building, then disappeared in a flash.
August 10, 2014 · 7:30 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
There was something in the air above north Phoenix/Scottsdale that had a very bright light moving back and forth. It was a ‘rolling light’ back and forth; it didn’t go from one right light to one left light, for example. The light was significantly brighter than any plane and it was facing west. After either heading west or staying in one place (I couldn’t tell), it turned and flew south. I could still see the light as it traveled at a significantly faster speed than when I saw the light head on. The object moved significantly faster than a plane and after watching it fly south for a while, the light just went away. Please confirm if anyone else witnessed this. Witness provides little contact information. PD
August 8, 2014 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Scottsdale, AZ
My son and his two friends called me excitedly to come look. We saw two big orange orbs - almost looked like Chinese lanterns, lit up - moving in a Southeasterly direction at a fairly rapid clip - I went to get my camera and husband, which took me about 15 seconds and by the time I got back, they were almost out of sight, probably over East Mesa. They were moving side by side and, to me, looked too close together to be aircraft - besides, they were close enough to clearly distinguish that they were round in shape. Have never seen anything like it!
August 5, 2014 · 8:50 PM · FORMATION
Mesa, AZ
3 more lights appeared a little bit further away in a straight line. As those started to dim out from left to right 3 more lights appeared. And this happened about three to four times before they just disappeared completely. The pattern these lights turned on and off reminded me of a caterpillar effect.
August 1, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Cave Creek, AZ
/Users/dreasdmd/Desktop/ufo 8.1.14.docx Sighting occurred Friday, August 1, 2014, 20:00, hours in Cave Creek (Maricopa County, 85331 zip code) , Arizona. I walked out of the garage, facing due south, and immediately heard the deep loud sound of a large helicopter. Looking up, I saw two stationary objects. One obviously a large helicopter (what I assumed to be military) facing east referencing the position of its navigation lights (no head or search lamps apparent ). The other was a large round ball of light reminding me of the color of amber jewelry or a head lamp from a sixties automobile. These were separated by some space, as the dark sky was visible between them. No sound was heard from the Light Ball however the helicopter was very loud. I watched for ten minutes with no movement but did observe the Light Ball seemed to pulse from the outside in becoming less bright toward the middle. Once, I thought I could see three balls of light forming the big ball but I am not certain. The helicopter moved forward and seemed to become one with the Light Ball but I am thinking the light intensity of the obscured the helicopter as I could still here it. I took my iPhone 5s from my pocket (will attach photos) and snapped a couple of pictures with flash. Immediately the Light Ball/not visible helicopter began to move north on a western angle in my direction. I became uneasy and crossed the street to hide under a tree and as I was doing so the combined objects changed direction more towards the tree. I noticed the phone was still lighted so I clicked it off and stayed in the shadows observing the Light Ball between the leaves. I may have been there for a few minutes and saw my next door neighbor (two ladies) pull in their drive way and get out of their Tahoe phones in hand taking pictures. I walked over to talk with them (their comment was they were wigged out) and turning to look, I saw the Light Ball and helicopter as two separate objects again with the Light Ball west of the helicopter and both were stationary and hovering. The neighbors went inside as I observed The Light Ball slowly start to move west/slightly southwest and the helicopter followed. I watched until they were completely out of sight. Suddenly, I heard the same helicopter sound again and looking up and left, I saw exactly what I just witnessed disappear in the western sky. The Light Ball was east of the helicopter and the helicopter seemed to be facing east. Both objects were stationary and hovering but the helicopter sound was not as loud and no sound was heard from the Light Ball. I did observe they seemed to be on the same latitude as the others were but further east. I watched for approximately five minutes and took a flash picture. The Light Ball moved toward my direction followed by the helicopter. They stopped after some north/west directional movement and hovered again. Suddenly the Light Ball headed southeast (North Scottsdale) with at a must faster rate of speed than the first sightings. The helicopter seemed to not keep pace and I watched until they were out of sight, but the Light Ball was out of sight much sooner than the helicopter. This was my first UFO experience and what was most unnerving was the possible military involvement along with the objects movement seemingly in response to my camera flash. I sent a text with picture to a friend just in case there was a Men in Black visit. This text was sent at 20:40 hours so this occurred over forty minutes. The photo timestamp can be determined once I upload into my Mac.
August 1, 2014 · 4:00 AM
Phoenix, AZ
Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD
July 31, 2014 · 6:40 PM · LIGHT
Tempe, AZ
Driving from Southern and McClintock drive in Tempe, AZ, towards US 60, we saw an intense almost glittery pulsating bright white light formation hovering, almost over Freeway towards the end of Rush hour. It did this for a couple of minutes, we couldn't believe our eyes thinking maybe it was a helicopter, then flew off at light speed north and was gone! Others had to have seen this! We've been looking for news, but so far nothing. Source of report elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. The witness didn't see anything in the news, probably because he/she did not report it to the news. PD
July 27, 2014 · 8:20 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Object seen pulsing red, blue and white, moving up and down and side to side in perfect 90 degree angles.
July 13, 2014 · 8:13 PM · LIGHT
Lake Havasu City, AZ
On approx 8pm, roommate and friends called me out of the house to come check out a full half circle rainbow, I grabbed smart phone took two pictures. Switched phone to video mode (5 mega pixles) and filmed the entire rainbowand noted a strange cluster of clouds, I make the comment it looks as if a UFO could come out of that strange cluster of clouds, I capture that it is about :36 seconds. Here is link to that on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJBEnAZnFRI&list=UUaKKSNYXQkyNlPH-K6QZjzw I put phone on standby but still in video mode, and go in to use the bathroom. Then run back in and yell that I have to come back out and see this it is a UFO, I turn back on phone, before I go out front door. (Driveway faces South west) As I walk out, I see a very right light up in the sky start record, then watch most of the sighting with my eyes, checking the screen to make sure I had it centered correctly, What I saw is the light go up, come back down, the strange clouds had disapated, above and below the object, then as it made a slow descent I saw 2 separate lights above a lower disc shaped color of a dark royal blue or purple, almost a blacklight color but brighter. The 2 light above it which took up 70% of it were very large and bright, with a definate separation of the 2 in the middle. This can be seen on a large screen Hi Def TV. As it decended it slowed, then as it got lower below the power lines and near roof tops it appeared to be miles away South West of town, I mention Sara Park in the video but my direction is off it appears to be 5 to 7 miles south of town in a desert area. no houses or buildings there, As it got to the roof line the left side appeared to me to flash a very bright red light on one sideas it hovered above the roof line a few seconds then dipped below that and went out of site, The other 3 witness's saw it ascend quickly lower, then rise again, that is when I caught this on video here: (1:36) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFiBEyVuY4I&list=UUaKKSNYXQkyNlPH-K6QZjzw That was it! My roommate called the non emergency Police line to ask if any calls had come it. And they had not had any but requested to come see the video, roommate said no...lol... my Father was a Pilot and I have been in many planes before. This had none of the normal markings of a plane. no tail lights wing lights and the lights were too huge to be landing lights. We are on the south side of the City, the airport is far north of here and it only went up and down in direction. My roommate said it rose very quickly high at 1st then kept the same speed shown on video. It was 8:23pm when it was all done. Thanks for your time.
July 13, 2014 · 7:57 PM · CIRCLE
Lake Havasu City, AZ
We were filming a magnificent rainbow, and shortly afterward, a "craft" appeared. I saw a red light, which then transferred into a clear larger round shape. It was as it the object was moving forword towards me. I heard the neighbors talking about it too, each of us wondering what it could be (Military? Drone?) --we are, afterall in Arizona's desert where a lot of military goes unnoticed. At any rate, the craft hung there, not moving at all. Suddenly, it shot up into the air, and then, it descended behind the houses so we wouldn't see it. We go in the car and tried to find it, seeing only a ball of light on a hillside. We were unsuccessful in reaching it, and when we tried, it disappeared. We came home and turned on the PD scanner and heard a call about a "ball of light on the hillside." We have the video uploading to YouTube and have called the news station, and we will send you the footage.
July 10, 2014 · 10:23 PM · FIREBALL
Three Points, AZ
We were sitting in the backyard talking to a friend. We looked to the west and three fireballs lit up the sky. Watched for about ten minutes and they kept lighting up.
July 6, 2014 · 9:00 PM · TRIANGLE
Queen Creek, AZ
A triangle shaped aircraft with 6 white lights, and red and bluish green smaller lights, slowly moved across the sky. It seemed to hover for a minute and then disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 5, 2014 · 10:45 PM · FIREBALL
Scottsdale, AZ
Moved off in the distance and continued to seemingly burn bright orange. Simply faded. Not because of distance away but the light slowly dimmed and disappeared. Just gone. It was substantial in size when first observed. Crazy..