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Arizona UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 134 UFO sighting reports in Arizona from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (20 reports, 14.93% of total).
- January is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (19 reports, 14.18% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (34 reports, 25.37% of total).
- 05/05/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (8 reports, 5.97% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (47 reports, 35.07% of total).
Arizona UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Arizona UFO reports from 2021, 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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white plasma orbs blue streaks across sky over home and electrical tubes of light White orbs have followed me from Landers CA 922845 San Bernardino County then to my mother's home in Yucca Valley CA 92284 to Yucca Valley my dad's home 92286. I moved out of the state to get away due to them putting me under house arrest 24 hours a day where ever I went in car or on foot. This group of orbs some white some blue and then the tubes of electrical light of energy are everywhere I am.
Now they are at thge house I moved to in Concho AZ 85924 every night and day. This Alien technology is related to a group of individuals that are from Landers CA a CULT. I have hundreds of pictures to prove everything I am saying.
I have given 5 ((deleted)) to the governor of AZ along with Department of homeland security and FBI in Washington and Los Angeles, FAA and every government agency in the united states. These orbs/electrical tubes and streaks of light remain at my home or where ever I go. The surveillance is inside and outside my home.
This cult projects their voices from outside the parameter of my home into my home. This technology cannot be seen during the day but at night still. This alien technology follows me into stores or banks any place and follows me in my car by tracking me.
The microwave and RFA signals are being used to due this.
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MADAR Node 53 .
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During I was taking pictures of my Christmas lights in front my house. I realize it was a light on top of the mountain behind my house where no one have the access there. That light is not a regular one.
I have the house picture with the light. If you come and look the areas it will be weird for a light to be there. I did not tell the neighbors about it or the HOA .
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Large sighting of orange lights moving and pulsating There were at least 22 orbs of warm yellow/orange light creating shapes, orbs were swirling in pairs. Looking from close to Tangerine and Twin Peaks area towards Cortaro rd. No airplanes visible except for one at the beginning.
People driving in the neighborhood were all stopping, it was a huge show of lights. They were slowly gliding over the sky towards west. Slowly disappeared one by one.
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4 different sets of 10-20 fireballs traveling downward at a slow speed On my drive home from work I saw what I believed to be a set of meteors falling threw the atmosphere. There was 5 to 10 balls of fire in the sky looking like they were falling. Two to three minutes later I saw another set.
I called my wife to ask her if she had seen anything. About 5 minutes later I saw another set, this time it appeared like one was burning up and another would start again at the same location or it was coming out of the same place as the first one. When I got home a few minutes later I went inside to tell my wife, and post on Facebook to see if anyone else had seen it.
I went back outside again and saw another set. This time I got photos. 3 different people on our local Facebook page reported that they had seen the same thing.
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I saw a orb like light changing colors and moving back and forth Hi last night in the early evening i saw a orb like like moving back and forth in the sky and changing from white to pink with a blue green outer ring to bright orange . So i went and got my 8mm camcorder so i could zoom up closer on it because the camcorder has 140xx zoom and i can pull it up real close and i was able to record some very good video of it despite how quickly it was dancing back and forth in the sky. at first it was just changing colors and pulsating while dancing back and forth.
Then the orb like ufo turned a bright orange and i would have never saw it with my naked eye but like i say i had 140xx zoom on my camcorder and while it was orange i recorded the ufo going from a perfect circle shape to the right side of it opening up and the shape turning from round to a almost round but having what looked like a pie with a slice taken from it like some door opened . The best way to describe it is it turned into what looked like a huge PAC MAN because of the pie shaped indent that it had and also it was like really bright Yellow and orange mixed and as soon as the slice missing or door was at full open i recorded a glowing light or ship exit the opening of this pac man like orb then the quickly must have closed cause it was round again and its color was changed back to like a pulsating white again i continued to record for probably another 7 min and it changed to the reddish yellow a coulple of more times but i never saw it open again. i will leave you with this im not a nut and i have it on video just wanted to tell someone oh yes my wife was there with me too .
I also see that i can send footage but i dont know how to do so because my camcorder is old and 8mm and i do not know how to transfer the video from it to online it has a 8mm tape im not sure it is capeable of transfering from the camera to online but i do have the tape.
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Set of about 15 round white lights moving together as if connected southwest to northeast. Several of us watched set of round white globe shaped lights move as if connected across the sky in a straight line at exact same altitude. A couple of the lights appeared almost semi transparent on the sides.
No sound audible. Altitude difficult to guess but each round light about size of car light if 3 blocks away. Lights did not sparkle more of a consistant glow.
Group of lights stayed in consistant row next to each other as they moved at same height across the sky. A neighbor in the area watched too.and another couple down the street were looking up watching.
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Took a phone picture out of window while driving on highway Wife was driving home on interstate when we noticed the lights above our car approximately 1200 feet , I snapped a photo from my phone, when you zoom in the shape really stands out.
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Long straight shining flying object On 12/3/2021 at 6:40pm. It was already dark outside, I was walking my dog in my community. I love looking at stars while walking my dog in the evening.
At that time, I was on the phone with my sister in China. Suddenly I saw a long shining bright chain-like object showed up in the middle of the sky and moving from west to east, and it flew away out of sight after 4 minutes. I took a picture with my phone, but the quality of the picture isn’t the best due to the capacity of my phone camera.
My son said later he also saw the same flying object while he was out.
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50 or more lights miles long in a line across the night sky. Lasted a couple minutes then disappeared from the head to tail systematica My neighbor Jessie may have captured it on his phone.
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Dog barked, I sighted object. It flew directly over me. Object long and slender, had lights, 100 yds long.
Siting of UFO on 3 December at approximately 6:40 pm. Location, North Phoenix, at 12th street and Forest Hills. I was walking my dog, then she barked at something in the air.
To the southwest, I sighted what I first thought was a smoke trail of a fireball. It was “dusty” and long. I stared at it.
As it got nearer it came into focus. It was very long, 100 yards or more, in a narrow rectangular shape. The entire thing flew almost directly over me.
It had lights all along the body but not evenly spaced either horizontally or vertically. The front end had two lights. All the lights were white.
The body was black and could not be seen. It then proceeded to the northeast and disappeared somewhat looking like the first observation. The entire incident lasted about 3-4 minutes.
I was dumbfounded. I did not have my phone, or I would have taken a picture.
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The object was cigar/pencil shaped, and was glowing yellow with what appeared to be a line of discrete solid yellow lights. At the date and time indicated above I saw a cigar shaped object in the night sky around 7:30 pm. It was fully illuminated in yellow.
It moved silently about 45 degrees from the horizon and moving east northeast at about a 15 degree climb. It was only a few seconds that I saw it. No time to grab a camera.
It seemed to nose up and then faded out completely and disappeared. It was like nothing I’ve ever seen before. This is in Phoenix AZ, and was over a Sky Harbor Airport flight path, so maybe was caught on radar? I was in the military and recently retired as an engineer.
It was not a conventional aircraft, flare, helicopter, meteor, kit. It was a cloudless, clear, still evening and no lightning was present. the object was totally silent, and moved in a deliberate steady trajectory.
When it disappeared, the lights seemed to 'dissolve' into nothing. I was in my backyard and just happened to look up and see it. There was no time to grab a camera.
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Orange fireball moving East to West Orange fireball with pulsating yellow light in center. Siting last 25 seconds. First appeared to be a jet on fire!.
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It was a bright light that stayed beside my cat for about 10 minute then disappeared. About 10 minutes later it was in front of me The bright light followed my car for about 10 minutes. After that it was on the side of my car and then disappeared abruptly.
After about 10 minutes it reappeared again in front of my car and stayed in the same position. It was very bright and circular. I got out of my car and took a picture and when I got home and zoomed n you could see that it was man made and there were little circles all around the outside edges edges.
I screenshot the zoomed in photo and attached that too . This happened on Highway 260 between Springerville and Pinetop in a dark secluded area near Sunrise Ski Resort.
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Fireball that changed direction My husband and I saw two round objects that looked to be on fire or with heavy sparks coming from it. We originally thought it was fire works but the objects moved side ways and up and down. They also would dim sparks and then re fire up.
The objects would also slow and stop at times. This lasted for no more than 5 minutes.
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It was bright oval shape, I have a vidio of 2 I was in az for vacation with my boyfriend visiting his family, we drove home in my tesla, and I was looking up observing the star because I live in orange county. The sky isn't as beautiful, but this caught my attention. It was very bright and oval.
I pointed to it in the car to show my boyfriend once the vehicle was stopped at our location; I videoed the object they moved very fast. There were two that didn't move like a normal plane or helicopter. I know this because I live in Orange County, California, walking distance to John Wayne, and I tend to look up at the planes a lot.
I have the video, and I have shown several friends, and all are pretty amazed by the objects. They were brighter them the stars. I want someone to look at the video.
My video is too long to upload.
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MADAR Node 5377 .
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Over 30 ufo seen over south tucson on nov 1st 2021 My neighbors called me to come outside and see what's going on and there were around 30 bell shaped fiery objects in a pyramid formation over southern sky in direction of vail arizona. First there were around 30 objects just hovering in one place not moving then most just dissapeared without moving and 12 stayed in a pyramid formation then slowly one by one they dimmed and dissapeared until only one left then all were gone. None of the pbject moved very much and did not move like anything i have ever seen.
Also there was no airplanes flying at all for hours after and all the antennas and towers that have blinking lights all malfunctioned none were blinking during or afterwards. They were not comets they did not move like comets nor like satellite.
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Halloween Night - burning bright orange UFO in the Southwest Desert. Halloween night 21:25 Due Southwest from out back patio, our house is in Midtown Tucson, Arizona. Directly below Jupiter and above/left of Saturn in the sky.
At 21:25 we saw an object that appeared to be on fire in the sky. Initially thought a plane was on fire. Right after we saw it, the bright orange object flared up for approximately two seconds, then began to dim.
It looked like an orange sphere for a few seconds. The object began moving in a West-North-West direction, towards I-10. The object dimmed until only a grayish dot could be seen.
By the time the object reached due West from our position, it was out of sight.
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About 9:00 pm Local time saw a bright Fluorescent orange object coming from the south west heading towards the Northeast. Made no noise. Watched it for about two minutes and it disappeared behind some clouds.
Object. To be high-level altitude. Mainly a clear beautiful night.
Arizona UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 20 reported sightings | 14.93% of all reports |
Circle | 16 reported sightings | 11.94% of all reports |
Disk | 12 reported sightings | 8.96% of all reports |
Fireball | 12 reported sightings | 8.96% of all reports |
Formation | 11 reported sightings | 8.21% of all reports |
Sphere | 7 reported sightings | 5.22% of all reports |
Cigar | 6 reported sightings | 4.48% of all reports |
Changing | 5 reported sightings | 3.73% of all reports |
Other | 4 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Oval | 4 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Unknown | 3 reported sightings | 2.24% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 1.49% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 0.75% of all reports |
Arizona UFO Sightings From 2021 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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January | 19 reported sightings | 14.18% of all reports |
May | 16 reported sightings | 11.94% of all reports |
February | 15 reported sightings | 11.19% of all reports |
April | 15 reported sightings | 11.19% of all reports |
December | 14 reported sightings | 10.45% of all reports |
March | 11 reported sightings | 8.21% of all reports |
August | 11 reported sightings | 8.21% of all reports |
October | 10 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
June | 7 reported sightings | 5.22% of all reports |
September | 6 reported sightings | 4.48% of all reports |
July | 6 reported sightings | 4.48% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Arizona UFO Sightings From 2021 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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Friday | 34 reported sightings | 25.37% of all reports |
Wednesday | 24 reported sightings | 17.91% of all reports |
Thursday | 19 reported sightings | 14.18% of all reports |
Saturday | 16 reported sightings | 11.94% of all reports |
Sunday | 15 reported sightings | 11.19% of all reports |
Tuesday | 14 reported sightings | 10.45% of all reports |
Monday | 12 reported sightings | 8.96% of all reports |
Arizona UFO Sightings From 2021 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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05/05/21 | 8 reported sightings | 5.97% of all reports |
12/03/21 | 5 reported sightings | 3.73% of all reports |
02/12/21 | 4 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
01/01/21 | 4 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
03/25/21 | 3 reported sightings | 2.24% of all reports |
Arizona UFO Sightings From 2021 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 | 47 reported sightings | 35.07% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 36 reported sightings | 26.87% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 18 reported sightings | 13.43% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 18 reported sightings | 13.43% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 8 reported sightings | 5.97% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 7 reported sightings | 5.22% of all reports |
All Arizona Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Arizona, in 2021
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Arizona
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Arizona.