Arizona UFO Sightings in 2009

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sitting outside on a bench observing the wierd girations of these objects two star like lights starting in the south east quadrent then stoping and changing to the south the first was a very bright object while the second object was higher in the sky snd dimmer as I said they wer up so far they looked like stars they also stoped and hovered in as well as going fast they were not satelights for the acted very strange.

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U-Shaped, strobe like blue/white flash in the sky, with no aircraft seen. My Dad and I were traveling together up a road to the top of a Mesa. We are both USAF veterans.

Most would consider us as reliable trained witnesses. The sky was clear but dark as sunrise was not to occur for awhile. Please note the time of this sighting.

We were on a mountain trail approximately 9 miles East of Springerville and 5 miles South of Highway 60 and 1-1/2 miles East of the New Mexico Sate border. We were climbing to attain the Mesa top by sunrise and hunting Elk at the time. In the Eastern sky, towards New Mexico from our position, at approximately 35 to 40 degrees above the horizon, a brilliant flash occurred.

It covered an area of approximately 1/10th of the sky. The color of this strobe-like light was blue/white and in the shape of an upside-down U. We both stared at the sky, awaiting some other sight, looking for the object that made this strobe-like light, however the sky was clear, full of stars, and no object was seen, only the impression of the light in our eyes, as it does when a flash is seen.

it re-appears and and fades for a few minutes afterwards which is normal. We were hoping to see an object that could have made this "blinding" flash, but nothing could be seen. No silhouettes, no shapes, no sounds, nothing.

We discussed this sighting and neither of us have any experience with an aircraft or military flying object that could have caused this flash to occur. Whatever it was, it is still unknown to us at the time of this report. Please note: This is not the first report of an unidentified sighting in this area that I have given.

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Hovering ligths over Buckeye. Viewed from Miller and Baseline road. Two seperate craft.

On December 9th 2009 at approximately 21:00 hours, I was driving southbound on Miller road approaching Southern avenue. I noticed two bright lights to the south that appeared to be about one mile away near the old mill. As I approached my turn at Maricopa I was still watching the lights as they were out of the ordinary.

They appeared to slowly be moving to the west as I was traveling west down Maricopa road. This is when I became alarmed. As I made the turn onto sunset point south bound, I kept fixated on the two lights hovering in the sky.

They appeared to stop moving. I raced to baseline road as quickly as possible. When I got there I parked on the south side of baseline looking south.

The object was approximately 300 yards away hovering about 100ft in the air. I could barely make out a dark silhouette between the lights. They appeared to slowly begin moving south when the light on the right side of the object flickered out slowly.

The other light remained, but appeared to be dimming. It took approximately 30 seconds to one minute before the left side or remaining light dimmed then flickered out as well. I regained my composure and began to try to rationalize the sighting.

Maybe it was something I just hadn’t noticed before. Anyway my Wendy’s was getting cold, so I began to leave. I looked back up, and the lights were back, but twice as far away as and farther east than before.

I realized I had my digital camera with me, I took video for 1min 45 seconds at this point. The lights hovered and slowly started to move south. Throughout this entire time the object never lost altitude, and wasn’t moving fast enough to achieve this by conventional means like everyday aircraft.

No noise either, just silence. Video was stopped due to poor camera quality. I continued to watch for approximately a minute longer absolutely fixated.

I looked away to prep the camera for more video. When I looked up there was another set of two lights. Closer together and not parallel to each other like the first lights.

I took video again for 1min 45 seconds. The first set were still there, but began to flicker out just like the first time. First the right one went out quite quickly.

Then the left remained illuminated, but appeared to be dimming. The newer set of lights maintained its tight formation with the first object as the remaining light from it disappeared. They then began to slowly move south until I could no longer see them.

Entire elapsed time was approximately 20 minutes.

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From the airplane window from SF to NY, I noticed that bright illuminated area near airplane's right wing in the dark sky. It was after sunset and the sky was dark, so this was very unusual. Then I saw four blinking white-dotted circle lights moving so fast in a row one after another.

They are about 1.5 feet long from the distance coming out to the surface from inside the bright area. They kept the same distance (close each other) and looked like following each other in order.

As I saw the third one the first one disappeared, and by the time I saw the fourth one, the first two already disappeared. It happened so quickly within 7 seconds or so. I felt that they are peaceful and playful.

After they all disappeared inside the bright area. I still saw the illuminated sky for a while. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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White orbs over Phoenix, Arizona. To whom it may concern: If you could review the tape from Monday night football that aired tonight, you may find some interesting white orbs. Before the start of play with 13:47 on the fourth quarter game clock they show the city skyline of phoenix.

I counted roughly 5 orbs circulating the city and then disappearing all at one time. It seems very clear they are orbs, not plans, their movement is nothing like plans and they disappear all at once. At first I thought they were speeding up the film time and they were plans landing, but why did they all disappear at one time.

The pattern they were flying did not seem like plans at all. I was so alarmed I DVR the rest of the game to record it. Just would like to know what it was I saw.

I've heard of white orbs spotted in Arizona before. Thanks.

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Huge light, in the size of a 747, seen in cloudy skies This occurred in early December, 2009, Tucson, ,AZ. My wife and I were returning home from the movies. It was a cloudy night and while we were only about a half mile from home, when both of us saw a bright light shine above the clouds.

The light on the clouds was about the size of a 747 airplane. The "light" stayed on for only a few seconds then disappeared only to reappear again one or two seconds later. Once it came back, it disappeared again after only a few seconds.

If this was an actual 747 plane or even a helicopter, neither one of us didn’t hear any sounds of either one. Also, for something to make a white light circle, that large, is not man made from this Earth. I'm a retired 23 year AF member and have worked with and along side 141 and C5's while in the military, so the size of this "Light" can be confirmed.

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Four cigar shapped lights appeared in a fire orange color, one then three more then changed formation and moved NNE bound. I'm a business owner and a private helicopter pilot and have flown and driven this particular rout several times over the past few years. This was the first time to ever witness an encounter of this significance.

There is no doubt in my mind the lights/craft I describe below are extraterrestrial. While driving north bound on HWY 93 from Wickenburg, AZ towards Las Vegas, NV, on December 2, 2009, at approximately 8:45 p.m.

, an orange glow in the western sky caught my attention. The lights seemed to be about five miles to my west and at an elevation of about 6000 to 8000 ft. AGL (above Ground Level).

At first there was only one object and with a blink of my eyes there were three more cigar shaped lights that glowed fire orange. The lights were in a vertical step formation with the original one hovering off to the right of the other three. Within about ten seconds they were gone.

About 15 min. later as I continued N. Bound on HWY 93 the lights appeared at approximately the same elevation and distance from me as before except this time they were in a horizontal formation in the NNW direction of my location and had movement to the NNE direction, they moved like skipping rocks in a pond, quite amazing to see.

The night sky was extremely clear and the moon was bright. This was an extraordinarily clear night and there was almost no traffic on the road.

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Bottle cap shaped UFO with red glow underneath, clearly seen from back yard on December 1st, 2009 . Estimated Distance: 2-5 miles Estimated Altitude: 2000 ft. Shape: Saucer with some height on sides like a bottle cap but double the relative height.

Features: Red glow underneath with intensity that seemed to fluctuate in coordination with the UFO's movement. Story: I went out side my home to have a cigarette - no smoking indoors. A red light first caught my attention.

As I looked on, I saw a saucer shaped object. At first I assumed it was a plane or helicopter and it's altitude seemed close to the altitude where I have seen helicopters hovering in the past. The UFO was descending and approaching.

Within 30 seconds the UFO was close enough to see very clearly but didn't appear to get closer than around a mile or two. From my line of site the UFO began around 30 degrees above one of our trees in the backyard and eventually moved to low to see. I walked to the other side of the yard in an attempt to see around this large tree but after 3 or 4 minutes couldn't locate the UFO so I went inside.

The UFO was in my view for around 3-4 minutes. My view of the object was clear and the UFO was absolutely not a helicopter nor airplane. The craft appeared to move or "float" in all directions although it never made any radical maneuvers or cha! nges in acceleration.

About this report: written 3 minutes after the sighting occurred. Since I am not in some remote, isolated, location, it seems odd to view something so strange - whether it be a UFO or some air-force experiment. I cannot say what it was.

All I can report as certain, is that what I saw was not any type of normal aircraft. I can't say whether it is due to the distance of the craft or not, but if the object was making any sound, I couldn't hear it. About the whiteness: 39 year old male who has never seen nor reported a sighting before.

I have also never experienced nor reported any form of anomalous or paranormal experience. My eyesight is currently 21x20 and I have never required or used glasses. My house where this sighting occurred is located in a normal, non-remote, neighborhood and there are no buildings, high rises or stadiums near enough to view.

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Saw what appeared to be stars shooting "laser" lights down, also an object emitting other objects in to another I have seen the same things in the sky for over a year. One night my dog was extremely anxious and began to bark angrily and excessively at the back door. I was reluctant to get up and let her out as she had just been out.

I had gotten off work late and was eating dinner at the table, my dog was going crazy (like when someone knocks on the door) I finally got up and took her out, she ran out with the hair on her back standing up. When I got outside to take a look around I looked and saw what I thought was the police chopper, It was a large light hovering pretty low. I went back inside to finish my dinner, however my dog continued to be very upset, so I went back outside to physically carry her back inside.

When I went outside I stopped and watched what I originally thought was a police chopper, and as I watched I realized it was something else. The light seemed to grow in size and it shot a smaller "star" out and that star shot out and we watched it glide across the sky, ! it shot north and we watched it until we could no longer see it. It also appeared to have what looked like a streak of grey afterburner smoke under it.

Naturally I called everyone I knew to tell them about what I had seen, my brother suggested that I keep my cell phone on me and try to get a picture of it, if it happened again. I decided that was a good idea. I never thought I would see anything like that again, however the next day I had my phone in my pocket, and my dog began to bark excitedly again.

I ran outside and looked up and around for a while, then right above me I spotted a red laser looking thing shooting out of what I thought was a star. At first I thought it was my imagination, but I put my cell phone on video and held my arm up for about half an hour and suddenly I actually saw it again and got it video taped on my cell phone. After that point in the days to come my dog continued to bark excitedly and sure enough when I go outside if I look up in the general direction where she is barking, I almost always get a shot of a "star" shooting a laser usually white sometimes blue and red only twice.

It has been a! year and I probably have around 60 videos of these things. I can only surmise that they make a sound that we cannot hear but that my dog can hear. Aside from the "stars that shoot lasers, we also have videos of what looks like 5-6 "stars" and suddenly one "star" like light comes out of the bottom of one "star" and slowly goes up in to another.

I keep referring to the word "star" because if you do not know what you are looking for they just look like stars. It's my dog that hears or senses something that alerts me to something strange up there. Often times there are three "stars" in the shape of a triangle out there and the two bottom stars of the triangle shoot lasers.

I have been hesitant to report anything because I don't want to be classified as a crazy person, however I need to report to someone, I know what I have seen and what I have on video. I live in a town where there is a military base, and I sometimes wonder if they are experimenting with something, but I am tired of seeing things, I am tired of my dog getting so upset and I just want to know what these things are. Can you help?.

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circular fireball slowly flew over me Went out for a cig and even though i live under two flight paths i know what i saw it was not a plane. it started to my right and went right across my view, as it passed i thought i saw a little debris like red coals from a fire flashing behind it.it flew to my left untill it was so far i couldnt see it anymore.

to long and bright to be a shooting star. ???????????? ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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2 perfectly aligned orbs silently cruise across Navajo Nation skies. On Nov. 25, 2009, at around 1755hrs I had witnessed two perfectly aligned lights gently cross the evening sky near my parents home in Chinle, Az(rural area).

I immediately had my parents and kids come join in the viewing of these two lights. Oddly enough they were silently cruising with the leading light ahead of the tailing light with a distance of 100-200ft in between both. Being of past military experience I noticed no FAA required strobes blinking, no sounds were emitted and it kept in perfect alignment throughout the duration.

The lead light was 5 times brighter than the tail which suggested one craft and not two crafts. As stated, no noise of engine propulsion was heard(propellers or jet rumble), no contrails were visible and no flashing light beacons on or near the lights. The estimation of its altitude would be about 2500 to 3000 ft.

This viewing lasted about 7 minutes until it lingered out of sight. Keep in mind that the overall light radiance was ! as it appeared, whole orbs. They approached from the northwest direction and departed in a southeastern direction.

Seeing how it was dark in the eastern skies, I couldn’t make a definite shape of this sighting but as I stress, the front and rear light alignment was perfectly straight.

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Low hovering orange triangle of lights I was heading west on Carefree Highway (US 74) at about 6:45 pm. After turning south onto 211th Ave, I saw a cluster of orange lights twinkling. I noticed that it didn't move.

It stayed in the same spot while I drove down the road. It looked like it was hovering over the desert behind my house in Circle City, located between Surprise and Wickenburg. I pulled over to the side of the road and called my house.

I told my boyfriend to go outside and look up. He and our five children saw it as well. He said it was extremely low, and hovering.

I told him it looked like a triangle formation. He agreed. He noticed another cluster to the right (west) of this one.

It was about 10 minutes from the time I saw it, and I drove into an area where I wasn't able to see it. After about three minutes where I was able to get to a point to see it again, it was gone. I asked my boyfriend what happened, and he said the lights just went out.

We both have never seen anything like thi! s.

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Bright Light, No Sound, Heading Eastward at 5:59am Thursday 19th Nov 2009 I had not beleived in ufo's, and maybe what I saw can be explained. A bright light moving eastward- faster than a jet, slower than a shooting star. No trail like a meteor, but faster than a satelight.

It was like it got brighter for a short period of time, only a white light-no other colors. Then the bright light got smaller, but still visible with naked eye. Then gone- vanished without thought.

Please tell me it was a very fast jet, and they just turned the light off due to heading eastward, and the sun comes up in the east. I have been in the Army- whats weird is that there was no sound.

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Took my dog for a walk tonight on my block. Looked up in the night sky to the North and saw a series of strobe lights stationary in the sky (looked like 5 or six lights in a series) fairly low in the horizon. As I watched a second set appeared out of nowhere and started strobing.

Both sets then strobed at once and then they both just vanished. Did not see them move off. They just vanished.

No sound or other characteristics from the list accompanied this siting. Lasted for about 1 minute total.

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Lights north of tucson/marana I was waiting for a ride at about 7:00pm. Catching my attention were 7 lights in a row that began to dissapear one at a time. Waited another 5 min.

to have 3 lights appear and dissappear one by one again. When my ride had arrived we had parked in another location and watched a motionless fireball getting very bright and dim til it dissapeared.

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3 White Orbs and bands of 8 Red Lights flash on and off over Queen Creek, AZ Three bright orbs in a line were observed in an area of the sky that is normally a part of the Mesa Gateway Airport southern landing approach. The 3 orbs initially appeared to be in a line that was slightly angled as if attached to a gigantic triangle/wedge suspended in the sky. Within seconds, the lights blinked off, one by one from the left to the right, in the same fashion as the "Phoenix Lights" over South Mtn.

These were not aircraft lights. There was no sound and the sky was cloudless.These lights were very large comparatively and only white, with the estimated distance away of 3/4 mile and very, very low.

5 minutes later an arc of approximately 8 red(only)lights displayed "on" from left to right, held for a second and went off altogether. The position in the sky was farther away and to the southeast approx 5-7 miles. This action was observed using binoculars and re-occurred 3 more times in different areas of the southeastern sky, too far apart to be a! prank.

These were not flares or fireworks or any known craft.The distance of the last red display was approx. 20 miles away, traveling southeast over Pinal County, AZ.

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Strange craft, military jets chase and plasma arcs in the AZ desert. Heading home from Phoenix, we proceeded onto I10 east bound towards Tucson, we took on ramp 211. Traveling SE on I10, right upon merging I noticed a bright disk glowing white, red and blue.

I estimate it was at around 40~50 thousand feet. I immediately check my iphone application to see if there were any planets visible. I did notice that Jupiter was directly due south at an alt of 40 degrees.

This light source was due east over what I would estimate to be over San Manuel, AZ. After 10 minutes of my wife and I observing this light, we noticed the flashing strobes from military aircraft either from Davis Monthan AFB or the Guard Unit at Tucson International. The military aircraft moved fast towards the craft, which hovered the whole time.

When the military craft approached, the craft rose up immediately and disappeared into the darkness. We noted times, places and conditions. Then we starting thinking about an interesting sighting my wife and I experienced much earlier in our trip.

We were heading east on I10 near milepost 170 due south of Phoenix when I looked to the west, admiring the sunset (5:25pm), when I noticed what appeared to be a plasma arc about a few miles from the highway, which blinded me. My wife asked me what I saw and I pointed in the direction. Then a few seconds later the plasma arc showed itself again.

The "arc" appeared to be in the direction of AZ347, but prior to reaching it. I work for an airline and am familiar with altitudes, various aircraft and their capabilities. What we say this day was nothing I've ever seen before.

We live near Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson and are exposed to military aircraft on a daily basis. The craft we say was not military or private. Nothing I know of moved as fast and disappears from military jets with such ease.

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Ski fireflys faster than any plane in southern Arizona On Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at approximately 20:15 - Driving out of Yuma, AZ heading for Tucson, AZ heading East on I-8 at approximately Wellton, AZ a short while before reaching the US Customs station on the highway. I noticed several bright flashing lights in the sky to directly ahead of me to the East in the sky. There were a few clouds in the sky, very high in the atmosphere, thin but dark.

The moon was to the East as well mostly covered by the clouds. The sky for the most part was clear however. These bright randomly flashing lights seemed to be generally in front of the moon, in the clouds and in the clear sky as well.

Within a fairly small area of the sky. At first I thought they were several planes, but I looked closer and they never blinked twice in the same area or in any pattern that a plane would fly. It seemed like a small electrical storm, random like lightning, but there was no streaks of light, just flashing dots of light.

Not only in the! clouds but in the clear sky as well. Much brighter than any star. I was quite baffled as to what it could possibly be.

As they randomly flickered for maybe two minutes they quickly moved South and out of sight. Faster than anything that I have seen move across the sky. Well almost like a falling star without a tail, but multiple flashing lights.

I found myself so entranced by the lights that I drifted lanes on the highway. There is no chance that it was a satellite, or any airplane (not even the fastest conceivable), or a falling star, or an electrical storm, to high in the sky to be anything man made. I am not the sort of person that really thinks that the earth gets visitors for outer-space, but I cannot logically explain what caused the lights in the sky that I witnessed.

Yes I was by myself and no I was not on any mood or mind altering substance. I would like an explanation. Thank you for your time.

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7 lights about, flashing on and off, in a straight line, horizontally, white THERE were 7 lights, flashing on and off. one after another. They were towards the White Tanks Mountains, in Glendale Arizona.

They were white lights, in a straight row. It was kind of weird, just seeing these lights go on and off. It happend from 7:50-7:53.

Ilive on Luke AFB,and it was very cool, a once in a lifetime sighting!!!.

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werid blue light in the sky, for 45 mins disappearing, reappearing, werid moves,very fast,only could be seen at corner of eye it was late evening almost compeletly dark out with a few clouds here and there when i let my dogs in to the backyard as i walked out with them at the corner of my eye caught a light is the south sky, the light had to be 10 to 15 miles away on the other side of the esrtalla mountain range where there is nothing but desert. when i turned to look at it almost comepletly disappered, so I turned away but i caught this light again at the corner of my eye so i looked for the second time, but once again it almost disappered so as i started to look away i could see it again. that is when i realized that i could only see it from the corner of my eye only.

when i started to watch this light it was doing crazy things in the sky figure 8's and very sharpe turns at first, then it would stop and almost float in the sky. then it would up in to one of the scrattered clouds in the sky and light the cloud up in a dark blue color ( by the way all i saw was a light during this ! whole sighting was a light no object and it was a none twinkling blue light.)then it would shoot a cross the sky very fast in a matter of 3 seconds if even that.

then it would shoot up to a high alittiude then shoot down to a low one. then it got very weird it would start to shoot across the sky then disappear and reappear in a compeletly diffrenet spot and that when on for a good 20 mins everything this object was doing i have never see do by a man made craft before. during the last 5 mins of the craft flying around i realized that the airplane pattern change from the normal which almost flys over my house to head to phoenix sky harbour airport.

i could not find a plane in the sky normally there would be one every 2 mins. as the sighting came to a close do to cloud cover coming in at that time it looked like there was one to made two fighter jets in the area of light. they more then likely came from luke air force base.

the very last thing i saw , was the light stopped and! was just floating almost like kinda watching the fighter jets! or at l east i think there were fighter jets the cloud cover took over the sky and lost the sighting at 1910.i would like to note that i have only seen one other signing in my life which i reported on this web site it took place on 9/10/93 at 2030 hrs. there was one thing in common with both sightings that very weird color of blue light, it gave a chill down my back when i saw it again.

i have never seen a that type of blue light on any aircraft ever.