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Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 89 UFO sighting reports in Surprise, Arizona to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (25 reports, 28.09% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (15 reports, 16.85% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (15 reports, 16.85% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (10 reports, 11.24% of total).
- 08/07/12 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 2.25% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (33 reports, 37.08% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Surprise, Arizona
These Surprise, 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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3 orbs moving in unnatural flying patterns We saw 3 orb likes objects moving in formation constantly changing directions with and against the wind. They would form shapes like trangles with one leaving the formation and coming back to it. We have never seen any thing like it.
What we saw was not possible with anything known. The orbs then climbed to an allitude out of eyesight. This was the middle of the day.
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After pulling out of Crumbl cookies heading west down Waddell Rd I saw a V shaped object in the sky moving in weird angles. The object was shaped like a V and it was maneuvering through the clouds. I was headed west down Waddell Rd and it was headed east above me in the clouds so it flew over my vehicle.
When it got directly above my vehicle in the sky I could no longer see it. I had my windows down and the object didn’t have the usual noise like a jet would.
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4 lights/ no sound I looked up and saw 4 lights turn on and it immediately went straight up in the sky. There was no sound! I’m very familiar with the military action near here and this was not them. It gave me goose bumps and was a very eery feeling.
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Star counterclockwise wise circling and burst if light 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.
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MADAR site 201, 66 mi from Prescott Valley had a good magnetometer spike & compass variation.
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MADAR Node 201 had interesting data but no code blue.
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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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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.
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I can go or send anyone at anytime to this area and they will get proof because I believe this is a base and if anyone observes then surveillance crafts are sent out and they are so fast you won't see unless you slow down your vids.
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The light has been moving erratically for weeks I wake very early every morning(2:30 am)I look into western sky and see what looks like a star. It moves sometimes erratically left and right or in a particle circle.I have been watching this for weeks.
I must say that it's movements remind me of a new driver. It's movements have become more erratic over the weeks.It is moving further now when it moves.
Some times it moves extremely quick for a moment.I am not sure why I am reporting this but I find it strange and amusing.
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I am in the habit of gazing at the night sky now that I am retired. On the 19th February, 2021, around 04:40, I was watching a satellite pass from the northwest to the southeast. I see satellites quite often, being a distance away from the bright city lights of Phoenix.
I like to watch for the ISS passing over as well, (it was due to fly over at 05:59), so I do know the difference in speed and altitude. Shortly after the satellite passed into the horizon, came a string of lights unlike anything I have ever seen. The string of lights looked as if they were the same altitude as the satellite I had been watching.
They were moving in the exact same direction and at about the same speed as the first satellite. Here is the approximate formation and number of the lights: . … .
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… . My camera on my phone would not have captured the string of lights as they were too high. There were no aircraft in the area, no clouds and no ground lighting that would have reached that altitude.
There was no sound. The string of lights trailed off one by one, but the leading lights continued toward the southeast all in the same straight line as the original satellite. I would be very interested to know if anyone else saw these lights over the Phoenix area.
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White glowing tictac or cigar shaped craft spinning completely silent heading north in the surprise AZ sky We don’t get rain to often in Phoenix and it’s surrounding suburbs but that particular day it was overcast and I was in my backyard looking East when I noticed an unusual objected spinning in the air that had a white glow to the entire thing and was tictac or cigar shaped and had no hard edges it was completely smooth and round on every corner. It immured a white light from the entire object all what would be considered its 6 sides (top, bottom, left side, right side, front and back) it also made no noise what so ever and was heading north. The city of surprise sits about a thousand feet higher in elevation to the entire phoenix valley and surrounding suburbs so you can see the entire valley and sky for over 100 miles.
I’m located near a air force base and see Air Force jets daily and nightly flying around the area and towards the valley and because you can see the entire valley and the skies above it you can also see the commercial airliners who get in line! for landing and after take off that takes place to the east of me approximately 15-20 miles and living out here the last 17 years it’s very easy to identify both the commercial planes along with the air force jets. The craft I saw looked nothing like any of the commercial or Air Force planes I’ve ever seen as this object omitted a glow around the entire object and spinning so you could see the long side of it and the smaller side as it rotated and again omitted a glow from all 4 sides of it. It was in the shape of a tictac or cigar shape where it was long on the sides and half the length on the other two sides and appeared to be completely rounded on all the corners.
It also made no noise what so ever and living here for 17 years you know when the planes are out because you hear them before you see them always. It was traveling North and that made no sense as NO aircraft that I have ever witnessed has traveled North from where this object was sighted, you will see the jets! fly east and then turn north for a brief moment to start head! ing west towards the base again but this object was way to far west and way to high up to be a jet and again it looked nothing like them what so ever. The object continued north for approximately one minute and twenty seconds I recorded it and have the film of the object at which point I lost sight of it due to the roof of the house so I immediately went out front to see continue to recorded the object as it headed North however it was gone and had completely disappeared after that, I stayed out front and looked for the object for over 15 min with no sign of it.
This object caught my attention because of its glow and the way it was spinning, when both commercial planes and air force jets are in the air they are dark and often look black against the blue sky and especially against a white/light grey sky like it was that day and this object was the complete opposite. I’m a avid sky watcher and this is the first time I’ve ever seen a UAP or an object that I couldn’t say was either the ! Air Force jets or a commercial airliner or even a small personal aircraft this object looked nothing like anything I’ve ever seen before.
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Large, low flying, fast moving bright blue glowing object I walk early in the morning before the sun comes up and saw a fast moving, rectangular shaped object in the distance flying horizontally, @1000-1500 feet off the ground. It was glowing bright blue.
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Floating flickering fire. Traveling slowly then disappears.
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Silent star-like craft races through northwest valley A bright white light simialr to a star in size and color raced from the northwest to the southeast. I thought maybe it was a satellite at first, but was too bright and too fast. Not a shooting star because it had a definite flight pattern and saw it for far too long.
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Some time in the next week or so, 3 large groups of Unidentified Flying Objects will be visible in the sky. Around 20:00 and 23:00 you will be able to see 3 groups of bright orange lights up and to the right of the moon. These UFO's should be able to be seen in Arizona.
There will be a sudden drop in temperature and the wind will pick up. The nature of the Extraterrestrials currently remain a mystery. Prior to and following the sighting of these lights, we will start to notice mass bird and insect death.
Temperature in the south states will be fluctuating and sporadic. Nasa will start contemplating the removal of all personnel from The International Space Station. Russia will refuse to leave and start doing research on the nature of their visit.
Numbers of strange gateways and people vanishing will increase. Anomalies such as Gravity shifting to crop circles will rise. Japan will start focusing on how to defend ourselves in case of attack.
Most of the world will start focusing on advancing in technological growth such as new fuel sources and deep space exploration and defence vessels. Hidden secrets and mysteries will be brought out and shown to the world. Mysterious men and women will start appearing in the streets and will appear to be surveying the land.
A base in antarctica will receive a communication from the swarms of ships. They will inform us that we are being studied to see if we are suitable to join them on the journey. A select 10,00 people from each country will be taken and tested.
The selection process will be at random taking adults and children. The world will fall into chaos and rage. The greatest minds will start working together and come up with a way to get war ships into space.
We will then communicate with the Aliens and be informed of an experiment they started during the time of indians and ancient tribes where they integrated with our societies. A calling will happen and all the people who are their ancestors will remember their reasoning for coming to Earth. An alliance will be formed between earth and the other civilization.
Earth will be given advanced technology and embark into the next chapter of life. From that point on we will be trained for colonization of other planets and space exploration. There is a spot of time before the alliance where a slight battle will occur and we will be pushed into being a military planet.
The precise dates are unknown but it will happen soon.
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Slow moving object, Bright white flashes. At 01:45 hrs., I was feeding my horses, I was done with that and went beside my house, I was talking to my niece through her window and noticed a clicking sound coming from a outside automatic light that does not work, it sets almost to the apex of the house, so I was looking directly straight up.
When I did, I noticed a bright white flash, it was so bright that it was like someone flashed a flash bulb point blank in my face. I tried to focus on that part of sky again looking in that general area and about 5 seconds later another blinding flash with a pulsing coming from the exact same light, as it was pulsing I got a pretty good view that it seemed to be cigar shaped and really super high. The pulsing stopped and then it was super hard to see because of how high it was but, I kept looking in that direction and noticed a commercial jetliner going the same direction but I did not want to lose where I saw this object.
Then, again it flashed really bright, this time I had a little perspective as it started to pulse again and the jetliner that I saw earlier was approximately 4 miles away traveling the same direction as the object, the jet was way further than the object so the object was traveling super slow and much, much higher. The object stopped pulsing and it was again very difficult to see. I tried to adjust my eyes to the speed that the object was travelling at and noticed it pulsing again, this time it did not flash but again travelling super slow.
Like half blimp speed if that makes any sense! The object was moving west to east, I watched it pulsing then go dark, then pulsing, and going dark. I watched this for approximately 8 more minutes, but I went in the house because I was having trouble seeing it anymore! I have never seen anything like this before. I know it wasn't any airplane, as airplanes have other colored lights that blink, this did not have any lights like that.
I know it was not a satellite because I have seen those and they shine and move fast and when they get out of the sun's light they slowly disappear. A weather balloon while it could possibly move that slow, it could not have produced that bright white light that flashed and seriously blinded me for a couple of seconds and they do not have lights that pulse. I was the only one who saw this, I do not have any photos or video of it, actually I was so astonished that it was like I was paralyzed trying to make sense of what I saw.
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15+ UFO's in formation On Feb. 20, 2018, at approximately 11:27 am, we looked up and saw about 15 to 20 objects in the sky. The first sighting appeared to be a line shape, such as a bird formation, then it turned into a spherical type of shape.
Objects hovered and danced around each other within that shape for about 6 minutes. They were reflecting the sun light as if they were made of metal or glass. At 11:33 we then went from the backyard to the front yard to observe the objects.
It took us about 10 seconds to be out front. When we got there the objects were nowhere to be seen. We stayed out front and kept looking for about 5 minutes.
Then at 11:38, they appeared again father north of the first sighting. It appeared that they were going in and out of sight. They were very bright then disappeared.
This second sighting lasted about 1 minute and 20 seconds. During this sighting the surrounding areas were extremely quiet, no bird sounds, no plane noise, no nothing. We do live about 10 to 15 minutes from an air force base.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides little contact information. PD)).
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Red ball in sky. My husband and I saw a round red flame light ball, no sound at all, gliding across the sky.
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Very strange looking. Lots of dogs were barking, the whole time. It was the size of a razor head.
Didn't move much and kept changing colors, but mostly white looking. Spinning in curlicues well it looked like it. I took lots of good pictures.
Surprise, 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 | 25 reported sightings | 28.09% of all reports |
Unknown | 8 reported sightings | 8.99% of all reports |
Circle | 7 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
Other | 7 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
Fireball | 6 reported sightings | 6.74% of all reports |
Triangle | 5 reported sightings | 5.62% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 5.62% of all reports |
Disk | 4 reported sightings | 4.49% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
Formation | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
Cigar | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
Changing | 2 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 1.12% of all reports |
Star | 1 reported sightings | 1.12% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 1.12% of all reports |
Surprise, 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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October | 15 reported sightings | 16.85% of all reports |
May | 12 reported sightings | 13.48% of all reports |
April | 11 reported sightings | 12.36% of all reports |
March | 8 reported sightings | 8.99% of all reports |
July | 8 reported sightings | 8.99% of all reports |
August | 7 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
June | 7 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
September | 6 reported sightings | 6.74% of all reports |
February | 4 reported sightings | 4.49% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
January | 1 reported sightings | 1.12% of all reports |
Surprise, 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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Thursday | 15 reported sightings | 16.85% of all reports |
Saturday | 15 reported sightings | 16.85% of all reports |
Tuesday | 15 reported sightings | 16.85% of all reports |
Friday | 13 reported sightings | 14.61% of all reports |
Sunday | 11 reported sightings | 12.36% of all reports |
Monday | 11 reported sightings | 12.36% of all reports |
Wednesday | 9 reported sightings | 10.11% of all reports |
Surprise, 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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08/07/12 | 2 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
04/10/08 | 2 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
10/29/05 | 2 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
05/03/00 | 2 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
11/05/05 | 1 reported sightings | 1.12% of all reports |
Surprise, 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 | 33 reported sightings | 37.08% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 20 reported sightings | 22.47% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 14 reported sightings | 15.73% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 10 reported sightings | 11.24% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 7 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 5 reported sightings | 5.62% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Surprise, Arizona
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