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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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October 27, 2022 · 6:18 PM · CONE
Douglas, AZ
I was driving north on Leslie Canyon road about five miles north of Douglas, AZ which is right on the Mexican border adjacent to Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. Looking to my left or to the west over the mountains I saw an extremely brightly lit cone shaped projectile light heading SE and the cork screw contrail from where it came from was in the NE which would be in the area of Tucson. It had a missile type shape to the front of it although I could not see the shape of missile behind the cone in the front. There was a cone shaped corona emitting from the tip of the object that spread out quite a distance from the "tip" of the object. I don't know how fast it was moving, but it was about the same speed as a jet aircraft as I could easily track it with my phone camera. It was sunset and the light emitted from the object eclipsed the sunset it was so bright. I thought to myself it could be a missile being shot at another object, but I did not see any other objects in the sky it could be aiming for. I presumed it might be a missile shot from Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson. I was able to take video with my phone, but I was in the middle of the road and needed to pull to the side since a car was coming. I had my hazard lights on, but was concerned it would crash into me so I pulled over. While parking, disconnecting my safety belt and exiting the car, I inadvertently stopped the video. I thought it was still running as I "filmed" it continue to move over the Mexican border at which point the front part of the projectile "blacked out" and there was an object I could still see, but it was blurry and hard to make out. The light from the object's "contrail" was long and could be seen for the next hour or so until the sun went down. I have photos and video of the event.
October 27, 2022 · 6:18 PM · LIGHT
Tucson, AZ
Video taped it before it disappeared. There was a second light underneath it but it disappeared before the very bright one Light looked like a search light at tip but it appeared to be spraying s something from center back and 30 degrees on each side. Then it disappeared. After 4-5 min.
October 23, 2022 · 12:27 PM · OTHER
Tonto Basin, AZ
I was taking a picture of the cloud formations over my town, and when I got home and examined the photo at near-pixel level, I noticed this strange object. At extreme close-up in my paint program, I just couldn't make out what it was. Just looking close-up at the nearby cloud it's under.. it didn't quite look like a jet - this area does get a lot of ground-based aircraft fly-overs. As such, I cannot verify what this object is using just basic home-computer software. I'm hoping someone(s) can better clarify its image. Since to me it doesn't look like a jet, etc. I wanted to submit this photo I took with my Samsung A21 phone's camera. It doesn't appear to me to be bad pixels, but I'm not sure.. From the distance I was from the object, I didn't notice it until I zoomed in on the photo. I didn't enhance the photo in any way.. and just placed a yellow box around the suspected object to help you know where to find it. It is in JPG format, which I downloaded to my PC.
October 22, 2022 · 10:50 PM · CHANGING
Oro Valley, AZ
I was taking my dogs out in the backyard to go to the bathroom when I looked up to the sky. It looked as though all the stars that are usually there were moving South, then it occurred to me that these were indeed UFO’s heading south in a pattern, one after another. Not in a straight line but a pattern I can’t describe.They covered the whole night sky. It was the strangest thing. I counted up to 30 and lost count from there but for 10 minutes I stood there trying to comprehend what I was witnessing as i’ve never seen such a large amount / a steady stream of them going in the same direction. I brought my mom outside, who doesn’t believe in UFO’s and she just stood there in a trance, I kept saying look at them all and she was silent, and said “wow, there’s so many of them!” They were very high, circular ,white glowing dots in the sky which would appear to the naked eye as looking like a satellite moving, but the speed and sudden stop and then go faster and in a different direction. I’ve been a believer and witnessed many UFO’s sightings in my life, but nothing compares to the amount, the sudden quickness and disappear and reappearing, all heading South.
October 19, 2022 · 9:00 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
The first light moved erratically in every direction. It bobbed up and down and flew all kinds of patterns. My wife and 12 year old son saw it. My son got scared and went inside. I’ve always observed the night sky as a passing interest and I took an astronomy course in college. I know what satellites look like. Ive also observed the passing space station. These looked nothing like those. I’ve seen satellites move in multiple directions but never like this. The movements looked playful. Flying loops, circles, bouncing up and down and back and forth. I called my parents who live higher up on a mountain in extreme NE Scottsdale. They saw it, too. While we were talking, we realized there were multiple objects engaging in the same behavior. I can say I saw 3 moving objects but there may have been more. My parents could see them, too. They saw them moving. One was west of my home. The second was almost directly over my home. The third was south of my home. They did not appear to be close to earth but it was difficult to judge their altitude. The one to the west was a white light. The one above my home was a yellow light but very bright. I suspect that there were more than 3 but trees blocked my view. I went inside at 10:30 pm and the three objects I had observed were still there.
October 19, 2022 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Cottonwood, AZ
Driving through Cornville to Cottonwood, AZ in westbound on. E Cornville rd. E. Cornville rd turns into E Mingus Ave. I saw red and green lights above the road in the distance. It’s 8:00pm October 19 2022 and in a dark area without traffic lights. The lights appear to be stationary hovering above the road. My eyes are on the road while we pass under it. My vehicle has a full glass roof and my girlfriend in the passenger seat could clearly see 3 stationary yellowish/white lights in a triangle formation 300ft above us. I thought that maybe it was three drones so I rolled down the windows and there was no sound coming from them. I drive an electric vehicle and the speed limit was 25 in the area. It was silent. I turned right into the next available street to get a better look but could not see it. I went back to where we first saw it not even a minute ago and it was in the distance at least 30mi away at a much higher altitude. We are both in our 30s. I’m a business intelligence analyst and my girlfriend is a songwriter.
October 19, 2022 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Tucson, AZ
Was sitting on my porch and a white light triangle formation appeared to the northeast of tucson and lasted for about 30 to 45 seconds traveling towards the northern sky and the three lights went out all at the same time.
October 17, 2022 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Avondale, AZ
The lights went from north to south for about 15 minutes, after that 2 of the lights disappeared, and one remained for another 10 minutes
October 17, 2022 · 4:00 PM · CIRCLE
tempe, AZ
A big ball of light that appeared to shrink to the size of a star almost instantaneously in a smoky haze and changed direction rapidly. It appeared to be coming down towards earth in my direction then shifted to a smoke-like apparition for a split second, then turned into a very small but still very bright ball of light that immediately started moving northwest after changing size.
October 16, 2022 · 5:00 PM · CHEVRON
Tempe, AZ
I seen a silvery shape boomerang object high in the sky through my binoculars. I grabbed my iPhone and began recording. I felt that it knew I was recording and began to move further away until it eventually disappeared.
October 14, 2022 · 9:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Glendale, AZ
Grey triangle craft flying extremely low or very large going an estimated 80 miles and hour flew straight overhead going beyond tree line at night. There was no sound that I heard coming from it, but my dog was barking at in the sky. Other locals had reported sightings that Friday and Saturday.
October 11, 2022 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Tucson, AZ
Going first then a plan forward moving no flashing lights just strobing picks up speed and disappears etc.
October 6, 2022 · 3:59 PM · CIRCLE
Oro valley, AZ
I didn’t notice anything on my phone, because I took my glasses off. But then saw this circular thing after I took the picture.
October 4, 2022 · 11:07 PM · CIRCLE
Prescott, AZ
Two red lights appeared to almost collide but quickly made chevron pattern and disappeared. They were much higher than planes fly.
September 29, 2022 · 7:41 PM · LIGHT
Scottsdale, AZ
Saw 2 crafts with bright red & green lights hovering in the sky then moving in random directions. They could dart across sky rapidly then back to a hovering state. We saw them over the McDowell Mtn range for two consecutive nights around the same time of 7:30-8:00 PM. The second night we saw 3 crafts that moved over N Scottsdale.
September 29, 2022 · 10:31 AM · DIAMOND
Tucson, AZ
I was at The Hospital on the 9th Floor when I Looked out the Window at Around 10:31 AM I Noticed this Object at Distance I was Looking North West I Immediately pulled out my Phone and Zoomed In and Started Recording I recorded it for About Two Minutes thirty One Seconds after Stopping the Recording I Continued Observing it a couple more Minutes when it actually just Disappeared “I have Video Footage but was not Able to Upload so I just Submitted a Snapshot from the Footage
September 29, 2022 · 9:59 AM · CHANGING
Laveen, AZ
The object could be seen visually but the video picked up little. At first It appeared to be birds flying in a circle in and out of a cloud but there were no clouds but in watching it seemed to collapse & taking shape as a whole and came toward us then we starting recording. What was recorded shows what looks like a falling star In the top left but as it gets to the lower right corner you see the object in question take form & move to the right but then disappear to form again in the same place a few seconds later. We could see the object the whole time but the video wouldn't capture what we were seeing. This is the cut version of what my son recorded on an IPhone if you think it's something contact me & I'll have him send you the full version probably better quality. It left toward the Estrella mountains and started off over Luke air force area & happened the same time as the president was about to make a speech but had just been delayed. P.S the black spots in the video is a spider friend hanging out in our field of vision. Seemed similar to the NASA UFO footage caught on May 6th space station just seen yesterday. Had to research on how & who to report too otherwise it would have been day of. It was creepy & unexplainable.
September 27, 2022 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Scottsdale, AZ
I watch stars nightly and identify them with a App that follows them and satellites. I have done this dutifully nightly for last 7-10 years as I walk my dog between 9-12 pm. I also awaken between 4-5 ea. morning to let him out for a nature break in our back yard. I have good knowledge of where all major stars are, their travel patterns, times ETC. after years of studying them. The early morning this happened I didn’t have my cell phone. I walked out on our patio and scanned the skies paying Attention to Jupiter and Saturn which was where the moving bright light was positioned slowly moving towards me fairly low and getting larger as it approached. I have wanted to spot a UFO for the last ten years, read about sightings but had never witnessed one. I studied it as it approached and could not see any FAA lights, just a solid bright light with a blueish hue. As it got very close It was obviously not anything conventional as it resembled a flat star and there were no moving aircraft anywhere in sight. It travelled at a pace a little faster than a jog. Frozen it was almost overhead and it’s detail became evident. Traveling at 500-1000 feet it was as dimensionally as big as a 747 At least 100-150 feet from corner to corner. It was two triangles forming a singular flat star shape. Third thing that was so eerie was the total silence. It doesn’t compute. How can anything this large right above you be so quiet? By now my heart was racing and I ducked under our back porch kinda scared. I ran inside to have my wife join me but she’d just commenced a shower. I yelled for her to come out and ran back outside. It was passing towards the NE. In the direction of NE AZ. When it had passed out of sight I ran back inside babbling about it to my wife dragging her outside in her towel. I was describing what had just happened and was pointing to where it had first been observed. When another exact craft but much higher like at least 10,000 ft. appeared to follow the exact same path. My wife watched it slowly pass and we went back inside. My BP was pretty high and I felt like I had several cups of coffee. I immediately wrote about what I saw to a report form in MUFON. I am sure there had to be others that witnessed it. I checked the airplane traffic app I keep on my cell and the only planes at that time in the sky were two FedEx planes leaving Tucson way south of PHX. I can’t help but think it was observed by Airport personnel that morning as it passed just to the west of PHX airport. Most commercial flights start leaving around 5am so I’m sure someone else saw this thing. The craft seemed to be projecting a light out in front of it. As it moved it was not linear. Kind of like taking steps. The middle was same color as sky which was still dark then. The outlines were what was bright and ea. 4 corners came to a point all the sides lit very brightly. Seeing the second one w my wife made me feel better cause you immediately worry no one will take you credibly. The lack of noise is what really stands out about my experience.
September 26, 2022 · 1:00 AM · LIGHT
Surprise, AZ
Was outside in my Back yard looking towards the western skyline through the trees I saw star and from it came another star that looked more yellow that circled around the star about three times then went into the star from the top created a burst of light and then just looks like a star but the star it’s self it’s doing weird lights different colors red green white but almost look twinkling good enough or their lights on the
September 23, 2022 · 5:00 PM · OVAL
Casa Grande, AZ
We were sitting on our patio. I noticed an unusually beautiful, white puffy cloud. I grabbed my phone and took a picture of it. I noticed something moving above the cloud. I took another picture of the object and zoomed in.
September 22, 2022 · 9:10 PM · OTHER
El Mirage, AZ
This isn't even the first time this has happened, I first saw one probably in 2021 I was lying in my bed and it was night. I don't remember why I wanted to look out my window but I did and I saw a thing floating in the sky. I got scared but I saw still observing it and then I think it went away. Fast forward a few nights after that or maybe a day after that but I woke up but couldn't open my eyes and I think I couldn't move. I tried to open my eyes again and heard a whole bunch of voices and I think my body or my bed or the thing I was laying on started shaking. Then I finally opened my eyes and I woke up on my back and I heard a jet flying by. Back to now. I was laying on my bed and I heard this noise from outside. It's night (around 9 and almost 10) the noise sounded like when you hear a jet near but not the really loud noise. But I looked outside and saw a half hexagon shaped thing in the sky, at first I saw the lights that was on it and then I saw the outline of the ship. It was outside of my house and then I flew away and I was scared once again. I then laid back on my bed and then less then 10 minutes later I think I looked back outside to see if it was there. It wasn't but I saw a light that looked like a very bright star and I got dimmer and dimmer until it disappeared very quickly and just as fast as it disappeared it reappeared. It happened again a third time and then I got hack on my bed and told my brother. I'm not really sure if he believes me but I had to at least tell someone.
September 19, 2022 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Phoenix, AZ
My daughter and I observed a light that changed in brightness, from very bright "five times the brightness of the airplane" to completely gone, over and over again over a 20 minute period. The light only moved a small distance over the 20 minutes, uncharacteristic of all other observed airplanes in the area at the time. I did get a video but does not show much. I also looked at it through a pair of binoculars and all I could see was a slim shaped constant light. Meaning it never blinked it would only fade in and out on occasion. IDK
September 15, 2022 · 7:50 PM · LIGHT
McNeal/Douglas, AZ
As it got just before border, it took a 90 degree turn, and the jets blew right past it, traveling really fast, no way they could make the turn, the object traveling WSW, crossing border, jets returning the direction they came from. Dates and time are only approximate. I'll try and find you a date and time, because I sent a message to my friend in Almira Washington. There was a lot going on then, so sorry I didn't get you a report after it happened.
September 13, 2022 · 8:10 PM · LIGHT
Mesa, AZ
My husband and I saw a stationary bright green light flashing (inconsistently) high up in the sky. We saw a few planes fly by from multiple directions, so we know it wasn't a plane since it was not moving. After about 10 minutes, it dropped down past where we could see but so fast that it should have crashed. It dropped faster than if it just fell from the sky, it seemed controlled rather than a fall.