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Analysis of Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings in 2002
We analyzed all 3 UFO sighting reports in Surprise, Arizona to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance was "unknown" (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
- May was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
- Friday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 66.67% of total).
- 05/10/02 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the late night, between the hours of 00:00 - 03:59 (1 reports, 33.33% of total).
UFO Reports in Surprise, Arizona from 2002
These Surprise, Arizona UFO reports from 2002 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).
Full Report Text:
Flash in the sky On the evening of 11/15/02 we were on our way home when we witnessed a flash in the sky, it almost looked like a flash of lightning. It appeared to be falling from the sky and then like a camera flash it just disappeared. I know others had to have seen it, because there was a road crew working on the road and there was a DPS officer sitting along side of the road with his lights flashing.
There was no mention of it on the evening news. I know that it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen, but it was too big to be a falling star.
Full Report Text:
Voluntary isolation is rewarded with quite the celestial show. I have habituated myself into driving out in the desert to simply be still and gaze up at the milky way, which is brilliant out here, contemplate and be privileged with frequent 'shooting stars'. Well, on the night on may 10, I got much more than expected! At about 1 AM a meteor streaked across the sky; and as I was looking in its direction I rested my glance on a dark patch of sky into which it disappeared.
A few short moments later a light appear in the dark patch. Based on appearances it looked like any other star, but then it began to pulse:bright, less bright; bright less bright, it continued in this rythmn for about 2-3 minutes then began to move from its location WSW sky(from my perspective) to ESE sky. It was VERY high in the sky and had no accompanying noise until a 45 degree angle was formed with me being the crux.
In other words, if I stretched out my arms at a 45 degree angle and extended the lines in the sky, that was where the noise was relative to the 'ship'. Perhaps 5 to 10 minutes later another streak painted the sky and disappeared into darkness. I waited and sure enough a light appeared and then began to pulse.
What's more is out of my peripheral vision I noticed another pulsing. It appeared as if the two were communicating because when one would pulse the other refrained and vice versa. Again the incidences were in the WSW sky and started to move ESE.
Two more occurences happened in the same way witht the correlative streaking prologue to the pulsing. The sixth event happened as before except there was another light which necessitates a brief explanation. Imagine a cloud in the sky with a bright light behind it resulting in a fuzzy light.
This fuzzy light looked as if it was lower in the sky than the others but ascended straight up at an incendiary pace then disappeared. The sixth light began to pulse and the seventh light appeared in the NWN sky and these two began the 'conversation'. The sixth started its migration to the ESE sky and the seventh began its travel to the NEN sky.
I followed them both until they were out of sight. When these things appeared as lights they were the color of a star-whitish blue, but the pulsing was red. This red light seemed as if it rolled across the width? length? of the object.
Perhaps it had wings or was triangular in shape and had alternating red lights on both ends? The actual shape was too difficult to discern as there was a new moon. It is important to include Luke Air Force Base is les than thrity minutes away by car. Perhaps they were taking a few Stealth Bombers out for a night trek? Can the stealth hover? Strange days in Arizona.
I am about to go out again tonight.
Full Report Text:
Large oval object with intense spot lights around it I was coming home from work about 9:30pm, when I turned off Bell Rd onto WestPointe Pky. I saw some very bright lights towards the back of our housing development. Almost like a baseball stadium's lights.
I was so curious about them I continued down the street to see what it was. I looked past a desert field towards Luke AFB to see a GIANT blimp-like object hovering very close to the ground. It had very, very intense spot lights all around the top and all around the bottom.
And in the center were multi-colored light much smaller, but they seem to move or "chase" around the middle. I drove away to go get a camera. I ran upstairs hoping my husband could see this object.
However all we could see were two glowing reddish-orange balls in a vertical pattern, Directly over Luke AFB. They blinked out suddenly and re-appeared in a Horizontal pattern. I thought I was going crazy.
However the next day at work, my husband talked to a coworker who described seeing the same large object.
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2002 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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Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2002 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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May | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2002 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 | 2 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2002 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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05/10/02 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
02/14/02 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
11/15/02 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2002 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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Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
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