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Analysis of Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings in 2012
We analyzed all 10 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, 30.00% of total).
- August was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- Tuesday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 40.00% of total).
- 08/07/12 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 20.00% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (4 reports, 40.00% of total).
UFO Reports in Surprise, Arizona from 2012
These Surprise, Arizona UFO reports from 2012 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:
Two craft with bright orange lights and no sound. Two bright light orange craft approxiametly 5 minutes apart; similiar flight path on both. Speed leaving area was different however.
No sound. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Flickering color changing lights in SE Phoenix sky Witnessed strange 'star' in southeastern sky after 2AM. While most stars can have a glimmer effect, this was about 1/3 up in the sky from the horizon and was quite visibly changing or flickering with red, green and pale blue. The red was quite noticeable and the colors rotated in uniformity.
Me and my mom watched it for 20 minutes. It was in the sky most of the evening. If it was a star it was the most unusual one I've seen in 30 years of watching the skies.
Full Report Text:
UFOs over Surprise Arizona First noticed 6 lights, then some faded out. Some moved off. Others faded in.
After several minutes of slow moving and changing positions to each other, they had all moved off or faded out of visibility. Probably 2 miles out and at about 2000 feet up.
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UFO enters atmosphere, turns into fireball, exits fireball. UFO burning in over Surprise, AZ. What I thought was a common meteor video turned out to have a UFO surprise! This was captured on 8/13/2012, at 4:49 AM, on a Yukon Night Ranger digital night vision camera operating in stand alone mode.
Recording video feed with UFO Capture software in motion detection mode. Camera was pointed North at an elevation of 60 degrees. The UFO hit the atmosphere and starts to glow, then turns in to a fireball.
Near the end it emerges from the fireball still intact for the most part. The upper part of the UFO may have seperated from the lower section. I am an ex satellite radar operator who worked for the Air Force Satellite Test Center and Kodiak Tracking Station.
Have recorded thousands of video segments, none quite like this one. Can be seen at http://youtu.be/OEnDI_Y1EQY.
Full Report Text:
We saw a perfect triangle shape ( 1 star top- 2 at base) of bright stars on August 7 & 8, 2012. TriangleShape in the South West Sky of Surprise, AZ --August 7, 2012 We were staying in Surprise, AZ. We left a restaurant on Grand Avenue August 7th, 2012 in Surprise around 9:15 PM when we noticed in the north sky a triangle shape star consolation.
We all questioned each other…What is that consolation? Did you ever see that before? We stood there for a while and watched it. It did not move, flash, change color or anything else. It consisted of three white stars at each tip of a perfectly formed triangle.
One star on top and two stars on the bottom forming the triangle. The stars/lights seemed to be larger and brighter more so than other stars. We continued to watch it and then walked to the gas station next door to get some bottled water.
We walked back to the van and took one more look at the triangle in the sky. It seemed to just hang there and not move. Dad said let’s go, I wanted to take a picture and he said no, we are going, let’s go.
So, there was no picture taken. As we left, I felt that I made a big mistake not takin! g a picture. When we got back to the hotel, I said that I wanted to go and get a picture of the triangle.
No one else wanted to go along so, I left to go back to the restaurant parking lot. I drove through a couple of blocks of strip malls back to the exact parking spot we were in about 30 minutes earlier. The triangle was gone, I stayed there for about 20 minutes hoping for it to reappear, but it did not.
I took some pictures at that time and I captured only one star that looked to be in the same spot the triangle was in. I came back to the hotel and shared what I found a felt the need to report what we all had seen. The triangle was too perfect of a shape; it did not look like random stars making the shape.
TriangleShape in the South West Sky of Prescott, AZ -- August 8, 2012 The three of us traveled to Prescott and again saw the same shape in the south west sky. This time we took a video and some pictures. We continued to observe for two hours, and was still in the sky.
This was NOT Saturn, the moon and the star, Spica forming a triangle in the August skies.
Full Report Text:
It consisted of three white stars at each tip of a perfectly formed triangle in a star lit sky. Triangle Shape in the North Sky of Surprise, AZ We came from Wisconsin and were staying in Surprise, AZ. We left a restaurant on Grand Avenue August 7th, 2012 in Surprise around 9:15 PM when we noticed in the north sky a triangle shape star consolation.
We all questioned each other…What is that consolation? Did you ever see that before? We stood there for a while and watched it. It did not move, flash, change color or anything else. It consisted of three white stars at each tip of a perfectly formed triangle.
The stars/lights seemed to be larger and brighter more so than other stars. We continued to watch it and then walked to the gas station next door to get some bottled water. We walked back to the van and took one more look at the triangle in the sky.
It seemed to just hang there and not move. Dad said let’s go, I wanted to take a picture and he said no, we are going, let’s go. So, there was no picture taken.
s we left, I felt that I made a big mistake not taking a picture. When we got back to the hotel, I said that I wanted to go and get a picture of the triangle. No one else wanted to go along so, I left to go back to the restaurant parking lot.
I drove through a couple of blocks of strip malls back to the exact parking spot we were in about 30 minutes earlier. The triangle was gone, I stayed there for about 20 minutes hoping for it to reappear, but it did not. I took some pictures at that time and I captured only one star that looked to be in the spot the triangle was in.
I came back to the hotel and shared what I found a felt the need to report what we all had seen. The triangle was too perfect of a shape; it did not look like random stars making the shape.
Full Report Text:
Object(s) inspecting what appear to be chemtrails. While video recording some strange jet trails, probably chemtrails, I unknowingly filmed a unknown object, as well. The camera was a Sony CX550V recording in HD, Night Shot (infrared) was OFF, auto focus, and normal optical zoom up to 10X.
I had hurried to get the camera, after steping outside and viewing massive chemtrails, and was a bit disorganized. The still images are the best I could do, not seeing the object to focus on it. I was looking to the west when the object(s) appears.
The video and still images can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUrIBJZHzqs&feature=plcp.
Full Report Text:
Shooting star, or something more? Was traveling west near White Tanks and saw what I thought was a shooting star. White in color, north to south trajectory. Then instead of continuing on it's downward trajectory, it began to move horizontally.
Very strange.
Full Report Text:
Orange lights no noise moved east to west accross sky and disappeared. At this time we witnessed approximatley 4 orange in color light type objects move west to east accross the sky. From the time we spotted them they traveled what was probably 5 miles across the sky and then it was like the lights got turned off or they burned out.
? Or they turned north so we could not see them any longer. There was NO noise heard from the objects at all.
Full Report Text:
UFO recorded in unattended mode with Yukon Night Ranger in daylight from Surprise AZ (NW PHX). Camera was pointed North and at an elevation of 60 deg. and had been running for 14 hours.
The video compilation shows a plane comming over at 07:43, a few minutes later at 08:08 the UFO very fast from South to North, then in a few minutes at 08:26 a helicopter. The UFO is reflecting light from under it, so may be higher than the plane and helicopter IMO. After deinterlacing the video output, I recovered 4 frames of the object.
Attached the enhanced four frames to the end of the video. The video may be reviewed at: http://youtu.be/pbav2gPcc04.
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2012 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 | 30.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2012 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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August | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2012 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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Tuesday | 4 reported sightings | 40.00% of all reports |
Monday | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2012 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 | 20.00% of all reports |
09/11/12 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
10/21/12 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
04/28/12 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
04/30/12 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Surprise, Arizona UFO Sightings From 2012 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 | 4 reported sightings | 40.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
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