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Analysis of Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings in 2005
We analyzed all 9 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 "light" (3 reports, 33.33% of total).
- October was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 66.67% of total).
- Saturday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 44.44% of total).
- 10/29/05 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 22.22% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the evening, between the hours of 16:00 - 19:59 (7 reports, 77.78% of total).
UFO Reports in Surprise, Arizona from 2005
These Surprise, Arizona UFO reports from 2005 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:
seen circular objeccts with red,white and blue lights while camping west of the white tank mounatins saturday night 11/05/05. We observed three (3) circular craft with rotating lights that were red,white,blue. (no kidding) that ran vertical then switched to horizonal this went on for at least a half an hour.
we observed these crafts moving horizonal for some distance then they would go straight down and stay there for several minutes then back up to a completely different location in the cloudless night sky. These were no flares! Flares don't asend and move horizonal.They float down and leave a smoke trail.
I couldn't deterime a distance for these lights. It could of been several miles away but close enough you could see the lights alternating with the naked eye.when you used binoculars they were really clear and evident that they were circular crafts.
Some seem to be bigger or closer than the others. These were not military aircraft from luke air base! we could clearly see those jets and their strobe lights flying around in the night sky. On other occasions I believe we saw flares from Gila Bend gunner range to the south of us.
These like some of the others we have saw defy explanation. I havent got pictures or film YET but I deterimed too.
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Immense Light Near Phoenix Northwest Valley I was driving home and noticed a large white/off white ball of light toward the Goodyear/Avondale area. My first thought was that it was an aircraft because that would be looking toward the Luke AFB vicinity. But then I noticed plane lights close by to this object and the size difference was immense.
If the plane lights were dime size, this thing was quarter size. Then while I watched the object hover a source of light shot up from it. At this point it looked like a shooting star with a tail, but it wasn't moving or falling.
I lost site of it while driving past buildings and did not see it again.
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ON 10/29/04 AT APROX 18:30 PM MYSELF AND 2 OTHER EYEWITNESSES WERE DRIVING BACK HOME FROM A LOCAL GROCERY STORE AS I LOOKED UP AT THE NIGHT SKY AND SAW WHAT SEEMED TO BE AT THE TIME A FALLING STAR AS IT JUST ZOOMED THROUGH THE AIR I WAITED FOR IT'S LIGHT TO DISAPPEAR INTO THIN AIR BUT IT DIDN'T. THE LIGHT DID NOT FADE NOR DID IT'S HORIZONTAL LINE STAY STRAIGHT. IT STARTED TWIRLING AND GOING ALL DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS IN THE SKY, I THOUGHT MAYBE IT WAS FIREWORKS BUT IT COULDN'T OF BEEN BECAUSE THAT WAS THE ONLY BRIGHT THICK LIGHT IN SKY.
IT ALSO CROSSED MY MIND THAT MAYBE IT WAS A JET DOING REGULAR FLIGHT TRAINING SINCE WE LIVE CLOSE TO AN AIRBASE, BUT THAT LIGHT NEVER COULD HAVE BEEN FROM A JET NOR THE THICKNESS OF THE LIGHT. THAT LIGHT WENT WAS MOVING AT AN EXTREMLY QUICK SPEED AND MANUVERED IN A WAY THAT NO JET OR PILOT WOULD BE ABLE TO CONTROL, THEN THE LIGHT WOULD DISAPPEAR FOR A COUPLE OF SECONDS AND RETURN. I THOUGHT MAYBE IT GOT LOST IN THE CLOUDS BUT THEN REMEMBERED THAT THE SKY WAS SO CLEAR THAT THERE WERE NO CLOUDS THAT NIGHT SO HOW COULD THAT LIGHT DISAPPEAR AND THEN POP BACK UP AGAIN.
I TOLD THE 2 OTHER OCCUPANTS IN THE CAR TO LOOK AT THE FALLING STAR AND LOOKED AT IT BUT ONCE IT STARTED MOVING IN ALL DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AND AT AN EXTREMLEY FAST SPEED THEY ALSO NEW RIGHT AWAY THAT IT WAS NO STAR, NOR NO PLANE. ONCE WE GOT TO OUR PLACE OF DESTINATION APPROX 5 MIN WE JUMPED OUT OF THE CAR TRIED TO LOOK FOR THE SPEEDY LIGHT WE WERE ABLE TO SEE IT FOR ABOUT ANOTHER 30 SECONDS AND IT DISAPEARED AGAIN BUT THIS TIME FOR GOOD. I NEVER BELIEVED IN UFO'S BUT IT ISN'T UNTIL YOU SEE IT YOURSELF, THAT ONE BELIEVES.
Full Report Text:
More lights west of Phoenix. This is the third night we have drove behind the white tank mountains and observed these orangish lights south of us toward Interstate 10. These lights at times stay in the exact same place for over 7 minutes.
sometimes there are 4 or 5 lights lined up in a straight row. I have looked at them thru my 700mm telescope and can see NO smoke trials. I dont believe these are flares.
The local news are reporting these are flares down at the Gila bend gunnery range south of our location. Last night we saw these same orangish lights north of our position toward Wickenburg,Az. There are no gunnery ranges in that direction nor militay bases of any kind.
At one time we saw two fighters fly around the white tank mountains west of us and headed north from us. We were watching them with binoculars when we observed this orange flash that appeared right behind them.this was not their counter measures from the air craft.
I dont have any answers but something strange is happening out here west of Phx.
Full Report Text:
West Valley Lights again!! We were driving on Grand Ave. towards Sun City Grand and once again saw the lights over the West Valley. There were 2 huge glowing balls over the mountains over off of Interstate 10.
The Tolleson and Avondale area. Just like a few weeks ago, all of these sightings are at the same time, and there are NO military aircraft in the area!.
Full Report Text:
followed 6 lights in a circle shape My brother, myself and my two nephews were traveling back to Surprise from Wickenburg on Hwy 60 headed east. When the white tank mountains came into view, we observed three (3) lights (white) that looked like they were on top on the north side of the mountains. We watched them for at least thirty minutes dimming on and off.
There were no strob lights or the normal plane lights one would see. When we arrived at my house we observed a large bright white light to the southwest of the white tank mountains. This one was either much closer or much bigger than the other three that we had been watching.
My neighbors came out and started observing the big light with us. About that time my wife and daughter,husband and two kids came home. My daughter went and got my high powered binoculars and spotting scope.
With these we could see is a bigger brighter light. It seemed to have a red glow around it at times. My brother deceided to drive down sun vally parkway west to give chase to it as it was moving off to the west.
By now an hour had passed. As he got north of the white tank mountains they could still see they smaller lights above the mountains still stationary. But now the biggest light was center of the mounatins some three or four hundred feet above the mounatin top headed west.
Sun Valley parkway turns at some point and heads due south, as they were now headed. They started gaining on the object and could see 6 lights in a circle. They followed it and watched it head toward the Palo Verde nuclear power plant.
They watch it for another 45 minutes before it finally fadded away. I believe all air craft are required by law to have (strob lights) these had none. They were diffently not flares, nor choppers.
This is the second time in a year I have seen these lights over or behind or on top of these mountains.whats weird is we watched jets from Luke Air base flying all around but seemed to be oblivious to these lights. I will be watching this site to see if others report anything? ((ADDENDUM FROM SOURCE)) Peter Thanks for taking the time out and speaking to me about this incident.
I would like to add I am a Vietnam Combat veteran and have seen every type of flare. I have shot off hundred's of hand held flare's myself while in Vietnam. I know what a flare looks like and how it reacts to wind and other climates.
These lights were NOT flares. Flares do NOT move horizonally at the rate of speed these traveled when they left the area. I will send you a map and try and get asmuth's for you.
I spoke to the friend in Tonapah, Az, whom I called that also wittness the light but unfortunately he doesnt want to get involved. But I still have his location. If you can send me your fax number I will put together a detailed map and fax it to you in the next few days.
I'am going out tonight with my camera and camcorder in hopes it will come back tonight. My brother who was in the chase vehile will collaborate this story and give us a very good line of site on the map. He wrote down the highway marker as they sat watching these lights.
He also would not mind speaking to whom ever is interested in listening Thanks again. ((name of witness deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)) ((NUFORC Note: We spoke with the source of this report, and found him to be an exceptionally good witness. PD)).
Full Report Text:
The first night of 3 possible nights. The first night we saw 3 bright lights above what would look like Interstate 10 in Arizona. The lights were huge and were spaced out as wide as 3 jumbo jet planes.
We saw them come out of no where and left just as they showed up. No trace, just gone, like a light switch. The second night, in the same place at the same time we saw 4 of the same lights in a perfect diamond shape.
After about 2 minutes the shape formed a perfect square. As soon as I snapped a pic (if you need it contact me, it is small, and if you know what you are looking at, you can make out the square) I looked at the phone (it was on a camera phone) it was gone again in a split second T he final night at the same time, same location I saw one small light for about 3 minutes and it was gone. The first night the media played of as Military flares.
The second night I saw the after burner of the Military planes and that is NOT what we saw those nights. What we saw all 3 nights sat there, made perfect shapes, not like flares or planes, and were huge. Then left.
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Comet like light seen in the western sky near Surprise, Arizona We saw a bright but small light travelling from north to south in the western sky. There was a light orange trail of light behind the object that did a series of switchbacks going towards the south but staying at the same height. In front of this meandering was a birght white light that was slowly moving upwards and leaving a trail of light behind it like a comet.
The trail of light exteneded from the switchbacks upwards. Then the trail of light stopped and the bright light kept moving upwards and it looked like a haze shaped like a cone was behind the light. Then all at once, it disappeared.
The meandering switchbacks of light stayed in the sky for at least 7 minutes after the bright light disappeared. We drove west trying to see where the light was coming from and it looked to me like the trail of light started behing the White Tank Mountains.
Full Report Text:
just a black triangle flying fast and silent. southeast direction. from my front yard.
just flew into a cloud and never returned! i live close to luke air force base but they fly f 16s mainly. if milatary it would have been a slealth but it never came out of the cloud. the cloud wasnt real big or rainy just a puffy cloud .
i also saw a mysterios object in late feb 1994? on the 10 freeway out side of yucipa ca. just a light changing colors never blinking nor flashing just one light changing colours like the rainbow i e blue to green to yellow to orange to red to purple to blue back to green and so on all the way across the horizon east to west thx jim.
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2005 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 | 3 reported sightings | 33.33% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2005 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 | 6 reported sightings | 66.67% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2005 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 | 4 reported sightings | 44.44% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2005 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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10/29/05 | 2 reported sightings | 22.22% of all reports |
10/20/05 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
10/24/05 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
10/25/05 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
11/05/05 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2005 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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Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 7 reported sightings | 77.78% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 1 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
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