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Chandler, Arizona UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 159 UFO sighting reports in Chandler, Arizona to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (37 reports, 23.27% of total).
- September is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (18 reports, 11.32% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (36 reports, 22.64% of total).
- 2000 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (22 reports, 13.84% of total).
- 08/15/00 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 2.52% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (83 reports, 52.20% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Chandler, Arizona
These Chandler, Arizona UFO reports are 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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While taking photo of last full moon I noticed an object caught in the photo above the moon See photos. Zoom in above the moon. Also enclosed is a isolated caption.
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Two orbs with no sound I just arrived home. I went on my back patio, 2nd floor apartment and I noticed two orbs just appear right in front of me just above house tops in a southeast direction. They were circling each other so I ran to get my high speed camera but it was dead, do I grabbed my cell and started recording.
By the time I hit record, they stopped circling and flew extremely close together. Keep in mind the the location they were above was right above my medical clinic i work at. All residential, air craft do not fly that low with lights that bright.
There was absolutely no sound. I can always hear planes much farther and helicopter blades are very easy for me; ex Military Veteran. I posted the video on Facebook and a old friend I use to work with responded on FB that she witnessed the same two lights.
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Bright star moving across sky unnaturally fast from directly above me to the horizon in about 10 seconds without dimming and was silent My friend and I saw what looked like a bright white star moving unnaturally quickly across a clear night sky at ~8:15 pm in Chandler AZ. The object was first seen directly above us, then traveled over the horizon in less than 10 seconds. The object did not dim or burn out like a meteor but was persistently a bright white light.
The object left no trail and made no sound. The object was moving too quickly to be a man-made satellite.
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Lights moving so fast, shape unable to be determined. Stopped and changed directions going perpendicular than original Outside with the dogs, looking up and saw a light going back and forth. Looked like a spotlight, but it was going very fast.
It stopped moving to reveal 3 lights in a triangle shape and then immediately changed direction going perpendicular to the original back and forth trajectory. Was out of sight in seconds after it changed that direction. Was cloudy, seemed like lights were illuminating the clouds from above.
It was close to a small airport, but I could see other planes below the clouds perfectly fine. The lights were way higher up than the planes in the area.
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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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Formation of lights My friend and I were driving on 347 from Our town maricopa to Scottsdale.There was 1 diamond shape very bright UFO. As we were looking at it it then split in half.
It was to the right of us as we were headed to Chandler area. After it split in half,a third one appeared out of nowhere. It started moving north towards Chandler but the main bright UFO stayed put.
There was actually a few people on the side of the road watching as well. We decided to chase it and find out where it was going. We are new to the area and we ended up somewhere in the Chandler area and there was a formation that we caught on camera.
There was five actual in a line formation might’ve been six but we are sure it was at least five by the time we got the camera out we only saw three. We were trying to find a place to park and catch it more activity but again we did not know the city and so we turned around went into a Circle K got gas. We asked the gentleman if he had seen the lights in ! front he said thank you so much for confirming and the answer is yes now I know I am not crazy and then also confirmed what we saw was correct.
Also as we were on the freeway chasing the lights as we got off the freeway we saw an officer that was actually looking in the direction and again there was a few other cars in the Chandler area that we’re watching. The whole thing lasted about three hours we are so tired so from about 10 o’clock to 12:50 Am They are still out there.
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The lights were in close formation, quickly shifting and creating patterns/designs, then appearing to dissolve into each other. As I was hiking up a hill at Veterans Oasis Park, I noticed an ever-changing formation of lights that at first appeared to be aircraft taking off from Williams Gateway Airport. Initially, they appeared to be a squadron of jets with more seeming to lift off the earth joining the airborne collection.
The lights were different sizes, but close together. Then, in 2 groups, they formed similar/identical formations: like the shape of 2 stars, or child's toy jacks; followed by a vertical double-helix-like formation, all the while, smaller lights appeared to coalesce into the bigger lights. within 1-2 minutes, all craft had been subsumed into the larger ones and all disappeared.
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North West of Chandler, Arizona near Venus One "star" appeared, moving at high speed, flashed a bright white light, then disa North West of Chandler, Arizona near Venus One "star" appeared, moving at high speed, flashed a bright white light, then disappeared. We then observed and counted nine others exactly the same as the first. They traveled in a row, one after the next appeared, flashed a very bright white light, the light was brighter than Venus is in the same area of the sky.
After the flash each one moved only a moment more then completely disappeared. We counted 10 of them. I am NOT joking, please corobarate sighting.
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Flying extremely high altitude extremely fast. Flying from SW to NE across the sky single file. Not planes or fighter jets.
Too many for satellites Each was just a bright light.
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Fast moving blue flame looking thing warped through AZ sky My husband And I left to go on a walk around the neighborhood around 9:10pm. We walked and chatted like normal. we turned onto our street to return home and passed the first house on the corner.
A extremely fast moving object shot across the sky from Semi southwest direction to a north East direction. The object left a bright glowing bluish green tail. bright like a mega glow stick.
It moved so fast it took my brain a bit to register what it was. at first, I thought it was a shooting star because it moved like a massive shooting star. then meteor but the thing was way too big.
My husband turned and stared at me and asked if I saw that?? He looked shocked! I rambled off my thoughts. Maybe a bomb? Almost pausing for the mushroom cloud. Jet? Military? But there was no sonic boom or jet like sound.
It was a semi dark night. We live in a suburb of Phoenix and there are street lights but this thing was still very visible and much larger than any plane. It moved like Star Wars going into warp speed but no sound.
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2 blue spinning orb like objects (with a nucleus) moving across sky.
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Saw 150+ yellow small parachute type objects in a random static pattern float southward Saw a small light in the sky similar to an airplane light but it did not seem move at all. Used binoculars (20 x 56) to see and it was a yellow parachute with a smaller chute off the back. Then a few very small specs not really visible with the naked eye (smaller yellow chutes) came into view.
After some time more and more until there were maybe 150 to 200 or more with about 5 or 6 of the larger yellow chutes scattered about. The scattered pattern didn't change but all very slowly moved southward and not downward. It wasn't in a straight line either.
Could not see what was at the bottom of the chutes.
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Looking overhead seen oval shaped lights as high as the stars. But what was startling that the lights were traveling northeast. Lasted for about 15 minutes and vanished.
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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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I am sending a video electronically. There was a main light that blinked and changed colors. However what caught my attention was I could tell the object was much bigger than the light portrayed.
There was a strange magnetic or electrical field or haze camouflaging the craft. The light would be in one spot and almost instantly be across the sky. It moved kinda like in a zig zag way.
Seemed like erratic movement. It was absolutely silent. No sound whatsoever.
At first I thought a strange aircraft was emitting a dangerous gas on the entire city. It seemed to stop and I saw a strange electrical aura like gas descending from out the bottom. Then I realized the craft was just descending straight down because it suddenly shot straight up and over and the auto around it went with it.
It was like I could see through whatever field was around it and could tell the objective was to be stealth. Never witnessed anything like it in my life. I have a 4.
5 minute video of it.
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Stationary object that suddenly took off like a rocket. I was heading northbound on McQueen Road. As I approached Warner Road, I noticed a bright light in the sky at approximately one o’clock from my position and at 30 degrees.
The light seemed like a streetlight at first, then I noticed it was too high up and farther away. Then I thought maybe a star since the sky was clearing up and the stars were out. The light went from a bright light to a flashing series of lights.
OK, must be a plane. I looked around and saw other planes in the sky. One was to my left at eleven o’clock and heading toward the light.
I continued driving northbound and saw it out of my peripheral vision. As I neared W. Guadalupe Road, the light seemed to have shifted position slightly to the east, but was at the same elevation, however the plane to the left had slowly moved past it.
As I watched it, it suddenly seemed to pick up speed and took off like a bullet out of a gun, heading straight east and was gone in less than a second. I continued scanning the skies all the way to US 60 to see if it would come back. It was gone.
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Multiple fast solid white lights appearing at different times and locations in the sky. This is the second incident where I've seen the same occurrences. I saw a solid white dot racing through the upper atmosphere of the night sky.
I thought it could've possibly been a satellite until I saw another one, then another at the same time. I went and grabbed my binoculars and my high powered telescope and my daughter and I continued to scan the sky. I tried to keep up with an object with my telescope but it was extremely fast.
I couldn't make out a shape but it was a brilliant, white, solid, light. I yelled for my boyfriend to witness what we were seeing and he saw the same things. They were way too high to be an airplane or drone.
If they didn't slow down, speed up, change direction and sometimes completely just vanish, I would think they were just satellites.
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Flashing multicolored object spotted above Chandler AZ apparently traveling outward into space in the high southern skies. I was observing the Orion Nebula with my 8" telescope when I first noticed a reflection of an object rapidly flashing blue, red, green, white, and possibly other colors. I looked up and saw the object – it was close enough to distinguish that the flashing lights were in different positions on the object, but I could not make out its shape.
I thought it was an airplane at first, but instead of it flying on a particular heading it was traveling upward and outward with a rocket-like trajectory. However, there was smoke trail it as one would expect with a rocket. Additionally, it did not emit any sound.
When I first looked up, the object was about 70 degrees above the south-south-west horizon in the Aries constellation (near the "41 Arietus" star). The object traveled in an outward trajectory, heading south-south-east toward the Orion constellation, but curving downward toward the Eridanus and Lepus constellations. I called my wife out to see it, and she saw it the last couple of minutes as it was leaving.
I tried to track it with my telescope, but it was moving too fast. As the multicolored flashing object was moving away it became smaller and fainter to see, until it disappeared completely between the "54 Eridani" and the "Epsilon Leporis" stars, near the Eridanus and Lepus IUA boundaries. The only difference between this object's trajectory and a rocket's trajectory is that it never "flattened" out – in other words, the object continued on a semi-parabolic trajectory, as if it were heading into space.
Also, the object appeared to vary its speed, but seemed to continue at a fast and constant speed as it disappeared. It took around 4 minutes for it to traverse the arc described above, and it definitely was traveling faster than a rocket. About 3 minutes after it disappeared, a passenger jet flying west to east flew at an unusually low and flat altitude of about 1,000' to 1,500' above the ground, and it flew right over our house.
It was close enough to see the passenger windows and its configuration (either a 737 or an Airbus A320). I presumed it was landing at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (aka, Williams Gateway), which is about 10 miles away from Chandler. This particular plane was abnormally low, which could suggest that "something" was detected by radar, and that the plane was flying low as a precaution.
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2 Solid round Orbs, one white / one red. Stopping/ starting, in the sky above me. Both orbs very clear, solid.
One solid red round Orb like light. One Solid white Orb like light. Red Object at a standstill, white object came into view, and looked like the white Light was going to crash into the red light in its trajectory.
but white object veered off And came to a stop, past the red object. Then white object began moving again, and and zipped past the red light again, as If the two lights were playing a Game of "Chicken" This went on for approx. 4-5 mins, then White light speed off out of sight.
Approx. 1 min later the red light took off until it was out of sight. This was at Approx.
6:10, 6:15 PM At Chandler, Az. Cross streets, Cooper rd/Pecos rd. 85225.
((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with the witness, and found her to be quite sober-minded. PD)).
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Synchronous Blinkings Silvery lights in a formation across entire SW sky above south mountain, Phoenix AZ. Usual planes flying in for landing @ sky harbor & then the whole sky above south mountain lit up like a Christmas tree while walking dog. There was 4-5 silver lights blinking & began synchronizing with each other & 3 were in a triangle! Wondering if anyone else saw it!.
Chandler, Arizona UFO Sightings 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 | 37 reported sightings | 23.27% of all reports |
Circle | 18 reported sightings | 11.32% of all reports |
Fireball | 17 reported sightings | 10.69% of all reports |
Triangle | 15 reported sightings | 9.43% of all reports |
Sphere | 12 reported sightings | 7.55% of all reports |
Other | 10 reported sightings | 6.29% of all reports |
Unknown | 6 reported sightings | 3.77% of all reports |
Formation | 6 reported sightings | 3.77% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 3.14% of all reports |
Disk | 4 reported sightings | 2.52% of all reports |
Flash | 4 reported sightings | 2.52% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 1.89% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 1.89% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 1.89% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 1.26% of all reports |
Rectangle | 2 reported sightings | 1.26% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 1.26% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 0.63% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.63% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.63% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.63% of all reports |
Star | 1 reported sightings | 0.63% of all reports |
Chandler, Arizona UFO Sightings 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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September | 18 reported sightings | 11.32% of all reports |
August | 17 reported sightings | 10.69% of all reports |
November | 15 reported sightings | 9.43% of all reports |
October | 15 reported sightings | 9.43% of all reports |
March | 14 reported sightings | 8.81% of all reports |
July | 14 reported sightings | 8.81% of all reports |
January | 12 reported sightings | 7.55% of all reports |
May | 12 reported sightings | 7.55% of all reports |
June | 12 reported sightings | 7.55% of all reports |
February | 11 reported sightings | 6.92% of all reports |
December | 10 reported sightings | 6.29% of all reports |
April | 8 reported sightings | 5.03% of all reports |
Chandler, Arizona UFO Sightings 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 | 36 reported sightings | 22.64% of all reports |
Thursday | 29 reported sightings | 18.24% of all reports |
Tuesday | 28 reported sightings | 17.61% of all reports |
Sunday | 21 reported sightings | 13.21% of all reports |
Friday | 19 reported sightings | 11.95% of all reports |
Wednesday | 16 reported sightings | 10.06% of all reports |
Monday | 9 reported sightings | 5.66% of all reports |
Chandler, Arizona UFO Sightings 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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08/15/00 | 4 reported sightings | 2.52% of all reports |
08/12/00 | 4 reported sightings | 2.52% of all reports |
10/25/16 | 2 reported sightings | 1.26% of all reports |
06/26/14 | 2 reported sightings | 1.26% of all reports |
09/20/14 | 2 reported sightings | 1.26% of all reports |
Chandler, Arizona UFO Sightings 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 | 83 reported sightings | 52.20% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 42 reported sightings | 26.42% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 13 reported sightings | 8.18% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 9 reported sightings | 5.66% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 9 reported sightings | 5.66% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 2 reported sightings | 1.26% of all reports |
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