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Analysis of Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings in 2008
We analyzed all 4 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" (4 reports, 100.00% of total).
- April was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Thursday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 75.00% of total).
- 04/10/08 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
UFO Reports in Surprise, Arizona from 2008
These Surprise, Arizona UFO reports from 2008 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:
Redish orange lights in NW Surprise, Az stading in back yard watching lightning to the north of me i turned to the westerly direction and saw six redish orange lights four in a row and two off to west of the four at a angle. The six lights flashed two times at which one apeared due west flashing at a slow rate as i watched the light slowly dimmed with a trace of light moveing to north fadding out. 10 miniutes later two air force fighters flew over retuning from the same area that i had seen the lights.
Full Report Text:
A bright blue light n the sky and quckly shot accross the sky. 2 witness The day after the Fourth of July myself, husband, brother-in-law and sister were sitting around the pool. We had been in the pool all day and after eating dinner we decided to go back outside and enjoy yhe weather.
It was about 1 am and we were watching the clouds roll in from the south west over the white tank mountains. It was partly cloudy over our house as well. My sister and I enjoy watching the lightning beacuse being from Arizona it is very rare we get a good rain storm.
The lighning we had been wayching was several miles away froms us and there had been no lightning above us at all. We both saw the sky above us light up, at first we thought it was the lightning. My sister and I looked up at the same time and in a small cloud we saw what appeared to be a bright blue light.
It was still in the cloud for about 3-4 seconds. Then the light shot acroos the sky to the right and was gone. we looked at each other in disbelief.
And asked both of our husbands if they saw it. neither of them had seen the actual light but they did see the brightness from the light that lasted longer than a bolt of lightning. There was no lightning above us at all that night so I am not sure what it was we saw exactlly but it definatly was not a plane or a jet because it made no noise.
It was there in one spot and within an instant it was gone. The development we live in is new and is right behind the White tank mountains.We used to ride out there frequently, until they developed these homes, on our ATV's.
This is not the first time we saw something like this and I am sure it won't be the last.
Full Report Text:
I called your hotline and wanted to add some deatails, I was told to put it writing This is the same report as I sent last night with a little more.I would like to report a sighting last night at about 9:45pm over Surprise AZ. What looked like an unusually bright star in between the last 2 stars in the tail of the big dipper that was twice as bright as the other stars stayed fixed and did not move for about 20 seconds.
Then it began to slowly move back and forth I thought my eyes were playing games but I judged the realationship between the other stars and this bright object had subtle movment then it smoothly started "sliding" off to the right and quickly got darker at the same time moving east/northeast then it was dark and I could no longer see it, just 10 minutes earlier I saw a Solid white "star" blinking off and on every 5 seconds seen in the northwest sky moving left to right,East did not have the normal red and green lights of a normal aircraft, I thought it could have been a satelite rotating reflecting the light of the sun on it's solar panels that had set hours earlier.About 5 to 10 minutes after seeing the object in the big dipper 4 F16's flew out of Luke air force base in the general direction of the object I saw in the big dipper and flew right over my house, they normally do not fly at that time of night and not in loose formation, I live near Luke AFB and have a general idea of thier flights they train pilots and fly in tight formations in gruops of 2 to 4 aircraft. If you have any questions I would gladly answer them because there are certain details that are hard to put in writing.
Thank you((name deleted)) Surprise AZ.
Full Report Text:
Looked like double the brightness of other stars in between the last 2 stars in big dipper. I would like to report a sighting last night at about 9:45pm over Surprise AZ. What looked like a star in the big dipper that was twice as bright as the other stars stayed solid and did not move for about 20 seconds.
Then it began to slowly move back and forth then smoothly slide off to the right and went dark at the same time moving east, just 10 minutes earlier I saw a Solid white "star" blinking off and on every 5 seconds seen in the northwest sky moving left to right, did not have the normal red and green lights of a normal aircraft, I thought it could have been a satellite rotating reflecting the light of the sun on it's solar panels that had set hours earlier. If you have any questions I would gladly answer them because there are certain details that are hard to put in writing. Thank you ((name deleted)) Surprise AZ.
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2008 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 | 4 reported sightings | 100.00% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2008 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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April | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2008 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 | 3 reported sightings | 75.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2008 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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04/10/08 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
07/05/08 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
07/24/08 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2008 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 | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
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