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Arizona UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 234 UFO sighting reports in Arizona from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (40 reports, 17.09% of total).
- November is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (51 reports, 21.79% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (42 reports, 17.95% of total).
- 11/11/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (21 reports, 8.97% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (81 reports, 34.62% of total).
Arizona UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Arizona UFO reports from 2019, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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New Year's Eve leaving from a friend's house who lives in a remote area in Florence, Arizona, notice the green light hovering in the sky while coming to stop sign driving home. Its is completely dark pitch black except our headlights so I thought it was a firework about to explode so me and wife wait and this single green ball or round pillish looking craft it starts to move slow back n forth n hovering for a min and then shot into the sky my wife and I both looked at each other mouths open as no plane or aircraft can move that fast. I should add we both dont drink so there was no mistaking this for a firework it.
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MADAR Node 159.
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Saw these objects while looking at a mountain in mex. from our front yard 6 ufos looking into mex. south from our front yard.
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We watched about 20 star/satellite type lights moving from West to East while camping at Picacho Peak State Park and facing North. They were in a formation pattern appearing one by one above us, traveling at the same speed and disappearing one by one to the east. There was no flashing light, had the brightness of stars and did not break their pattern.
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Line of at least 14 lights traveling east in a single line. Tonight, at approximately 1830 on December 21, 2019, we were walking across a parking lot at the Grand Canyon Inn in the town of Valle, north of Williams, Arizona. We looked up and saw what we thought was a satellite moving from west to east.
Then we noticed another one behind it which we thought was odd. We kept watching and counted 14+ of these same objects, each with a steady non-flashing whitish light, evenly spaced and flying in a line behind each other. On the form above, I called it a formation since the dots of light were all flying in a line.
LWe have no idea what to think of them. Any ideas?.
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I saw what appeared as lights moving in a straight line on a NNE flight pattern. The lights did not blink or waiver. They were even spaced and seemed to be at same speeds.
These were not aircraft. No blinking lights and no sound.
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Bright lights hovering There were 2 bright lights in the sky hovering then suddenly vanished.
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I was travelling on Loop 202 Beeline Highway heading West . Coming from the South were two perfectly round dull green lights on opposite ends of each other but directly across from each other about the distance of a medium to small size airplanes wing span. These two lights did NOT blink at all and they were not bright like a conventional aircraft or helicopter as to be used for the purpose of seeing out ahead of where it was going.
There were (zero) no other lights whatsoever on this UFO. As it approached closer towards the highway and right when it got almost directly above me the light on the right side (as Im looking at it coming towards me) turned a reddish color and with the same dim and dull appearance. The craft that was flying was completely dark ,so i couldnt make out the actual shape of it.
I thought I seen a quick glimpse of the craft as a other source of low light reflected off of it and It appeared to be like a flat triangle shape. The color ! of the craft was a grayish dull steel appearance with intricate box shaped or square parts on the exterior located towards the center . I know it sounds like I seen alot but I really didnt and it happened so quick that the only image i have in memory to describe it.
The craft also wasnt very high off the ground . It was a few hundred feet in the air . I completely lost sight of it after it flew over my car towards Red Mountain .
After that main sighting there were 4 seperate bright super bright lights that hovered out South of Phoenix and North West of Phoenix. 2 each on each side of the 202. There were multiple helicopters flying out between these white lights as well as commercial aircraft coming in and out of Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
The Airplanes and Helicopters are extremely easy to identify whether they are far or near. There was alot of activity in Phoenix at 7pm . I hope others that witnessed what i seen has the inclination to report it as well .
I got footage! of the white lights (4) of them on video on my camera phone. ! I wish I could of captured the dull green lights on the craft that was super close to me, but i wasnt thinking fast enough to get that . that one would even have the Pope believing without a doubt there are UFOs.
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I was sitting at my kitchen table and I saw a saucer with blue lights, ran outside, it was cruising low and slow from South Mountain traveling northeast towards Scottsdale.
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Unusual sighting on Highway 86 on Tohono O’oodham Nation in Arizona. I came across this huge light in the sky it looked bright like a star but was very low to the ground. It stayed in one stop for over an hour.
It blinked several times then disappeared. Then after a few minutes I saw at least a hundred or so twinkling lights that all flew to where the star was earlier. The lights looks like tiny sparkles, some flew in formation, others just flying.
They joined to make bigger lights. Then when they got to the original location of the bright light I saw earlier, the sparkles joined and became solid lights. 6 solid white lights lit up then disappeared.
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4 big orange orbs in straight line then vanish in 4. 3. 2.
1 sequence. Looked west maybe a bit southwest in red rock right off I-10 highway and saw 4 very bright big orange lights in sky. Then immediately one at a time they vanished in a 4 to 3 to 2 to 1 then 0 sequence within moments.
They were about four times the size of stats in distance. Very strange.
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We observered star type lights moving from East to west. They appeared to be in a formation pattern traveling at the same speed. There was no flashing light, had the brightness of stars and did not break their pattern.
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Bright round light in the Northern sky shortly after sunset. It was heading slightly downward and diagonally at a slow velocity; too slow to be a shooting star. It came to a stop and headed upwards maintaining that same slow speed.
It then turned to the right and moved parallel to the ground and went behind some clouds. It emerged from the clouds and headed in the opposite direction. Eventually, it went behind more clouds and was not seen again.
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strange shaped craft I went to my car to pick up my daughter when suddenly I saw a weird shaped UFO in the night sky apx 22:15. It had illuminated lights on it with brightness like no lights seen on Earth. It is shaped like the picture on youtube channel mrmbb333 video titled 'incredible ufo spotted above canada resembles strange craft recently found in Antartica ice posted December 16, 2019 at time stamp 2:20.
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Well I heard a rumbling sound outside and then when I went outside I looked up into the sky and saw a jet chasing a circle orb it was yellow Orange in color and it went towards north Mesa then they went towards Phoenix I guess and went around and came back towards Chandler 10 minutes later I saw it again right north of Ray Road about 3,000 ft High it was the jet was chasing a UFO.
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30 star like objects traveling in line Saw approx 30 star like objects dropping out of the black and traveling approx north to south spaced evenly except for one that was not in the line. They appeared to be traveling about the same speed as the space station (when I have seen it) and altitude perhaps about 40,000 feet. This follows a similar sighting the morning prior to Thanksgiving 2019 also around 6:15am where about the same number of "craft" were seen traveling from west to east, about the same speed and altitude, but spaced more closely and not as even.
Sky was clear both mornings. Brightness was about the same as average stars. The light was constant, no flickering, etc.
no sound. Aircraft were in the area, but routine and not appearing to interact.
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30 lights in a perfect line heading from nne sky to sse horizon over phx. az. at 6;15 am on 12/12/2019 I saw the first light as it came into view in the N.
N.E sky . It was a light ,I thought it may have been the ISS.
I have witnessed this before , Usually I would watch the light pass over until it vanished in the SSE sky , then go inside to the computer to check my sighting . This morning however the lights kept on coming . They were spaced apart and formed a line .
I thought maybe satellites or possible commercial flight path but they kept on coming . I then thought military but they kept on coming . There were two instances when there were two lights moving parallel with each other .
they all were moving in a perfect line perfectly spaced . I counted at least 30 .
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Over 50 UFO's Travel Across Northern Phoenix, AZ Skys Right Above Me I have been seeing what look like "flying stars" randomly for over a year between the hours of 5 a.m. and 6:30 a.
m. MST. This morning I watched 2 of them go across the sky right above me.
Soon after that I saw more and more and more coming one after the other. They were coming from the North West and traveling South East. They were exactly the same distance from one another following each other in a line formation.
They kept coming for over 12 minutes and I counted over 50. They were as bright as planet and a bit smaller. I stood up and watched this in amazement.
It was literally a fleet of UFO star like orbs. Someone else HAD to have seen this.
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7 round steady bright lights moving from NW to SW at very high speed At approximately 06:00 I saw a string of 7 bright round steadily moving lights moving at extremely high speed from the NW towards the SW. They were evenly spaced apart, white and NOT flashing or blinking. As I watched them move across the sky they went from one horizon in the NW to the SW in a span on less than 2 minutes.
Extremely high altitude as there was commercial air traffic with standard blinking lights at lower elevations in the sky typical to the metro area. When I witnesses the first light I thought is was possible to be a satellite until they began to appear in a string like fashion. String of the 7 lights were approximately 1/3 filed of view of entire skyline and were visible in total when almost directly above the north central metro area.
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Around 4:05am i took our dog out and i sat down on the porch chair and like any other night i was kicking back and i happened to look up and caught sight of the trail of lights and couldn't believe my eyes and ran into the house and woke my wife because i knew no one would believe me and best of all i i tried searching on the internet to see if anyone else had seen it and when i pulled up your page i was shocked because that photo of lights you have is the exact same thing we saw except there were almost triple the lights we observed,if possible can you please let me know what we saw? Thank you so much for your time and anticipated cooperation in this matter.
Arizona UFO Sightings From 2019 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 40 reported sightings | 17.09% of all reports |
Circle | 33 reported sightings | 14.10% of all reports |
Unknown | 20 reported sightings | 8.55% of all reports |
Other | 18 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Formation | 14 reported sightings | 5.98% of all reports |
Triangle | 12 reported sightings | 5.13% of all reports |
Disk | 11 reported sightings | 4.70% of all reports |
Rectangle | 11 reported sightings | 4.70% of all reports |
Fireball | 10 reported sightings | 4.27% of all reports |
Oval | 8 reported sightings | 3.42% of all reports |
Cigar | 8 reported sightings | 3.42% of all reports |
Sphere | 8 reported sightings | 3.42% of all reports |
Egg | 7 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Changing | 6 reported sightings | 2.56% of all reports |
Diamond | 4 reported sightings | 1.71% of all reports |
Cross | 3 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Teardrop | 3 reported sightings | 1.28% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 0.85% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 0.85% of all reports |
Arizona UFO Sightings From 2019 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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November | 51 reported sightings | 21.79% of all reports |
October | 28 reported sightings | 11.97% of all reports |
December | 26 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
May | 25 reported sightings | 10.68% of all reports |
April | 23 reported sightings | 9.83% of all reports |
September | 21 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
March | 17 reported sightings | 7.26% of all reports |
June | 13 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
July | 9 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
January | 9 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
August | 8 reported sightings | 3.42% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 1.71% of all reports |
Arizona UFO Sightings From 2019 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 42 reported sightings | 17.95% of all reports |
Tuesday | 39 reported sightings | 16.67% of all reports |
Monday | 36 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Sunday | 32 reported sightings | 13.68% of all reports |
Friday | 31 reported sightings | 13.25% of all reports |
Wednesday | 27 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Thursday | 27 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Arizona UFO Sightings From 2019 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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11/11/19 | 21 reported sightings | 8.97% of all reports |
11/23/19 | 9 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
05/24/19 | 7 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
12/12/19 | 5 reported sightings | 2.14% of all reports |
05/25/19 | 5 reported sightings | 2.14% of all reports |
Arizona UFO Sightings From 2019 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 81 reported sightings | 34.62% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 72 reported sightings | 30.77% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 24 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 24 reported sightings | 10.26% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 20 reported sightings | 8.55% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 13 reported sightings | 5.56% of all reports |
All Arizona Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Arizona, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Arizona
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Arizona.