UFO Sightings in Arizona
4,660 UFO sightings reported in Arizona since 1946, peaking in 2014 (302 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 4,660
- Span
- 1946–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (302 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1946–2022 · peak 2014 (302 reports)
Top cities in Arizona
Phoenix
1959–2022 · peak 1997 (46 reports)
Tucson
1960–2022 · peak 2014 (36 reports)
Mesa
1978–2022 · peak 2015 (20 reports)
Scottsdale
1969–2022 · peak 2014 (15 reports)
Chandler
1995–2021 · peak 2000 (21 reports)
Gilbert
1995–2021 · peak 2000 (40 reports)
Tempe
1968–2022 · peak 2015 (10 reports)
Glendale
1966–2022 · peak 2015 (11 reports)
Sedona
1989–2021 · peak 2011 (7 reports)
Lake Havasu City
1968–2022 · peak 2011 (11 reports)
Surprise
1998–2021 · peak 2012 (10 reports)
Peoria
1985–2022 · peak 2013 (9 reports)
Yuma
1982–2022 · peak 2010 (7 reports)
Maricopa
1975–2020 · peak 2014 (12 reports)
Buckeye
1997–2022 · peak 2015 (9 reports)
Flagstaff
1966–2021 · peak 1999 (7 reports)
Prescott Valley
1995–2020 · peak 2000 (14 reports)
Kingman
1953–2021 · peak 2016 (7 reports)
Apache Junction
1986–2022 · peak 2014 (7 reports)
Prescott
1993–2021 · peak 1997 (6 reports)
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Leaving my girlfriend's grandparents house, noticed a blinking whitish light moving to the northwest. Thought that it was a plane, but
Mesa · AZ, USA
3 red triangle lights over mesa arizona moving at a slow rate of speed.
Mesa · AZ, USA
red rotating lights that drop
Mesa · AZ, USA
red lights over mesa arizona
Mesa · AZ, USA
Formation of three red lights.
Mesa · AZ, USA
This was not a balloon, known aircraft,spotlight,,flair ,star, or planet. What in our world was it?
Mesa · AZ, USA
Bright red light floating almost overhead in western Mesa, AZ - just to the SE a little. Floated/moved slowly until it vanished.
Tucson · AZ, USA
Phasing Cigar UFO over NE Tucson AZ
Phoenix/Tucson (between; on I-10 E) · AZ, USA
Unknown Craft Hovers Over I-10
Phoenix · AZ, USA
glowing gold spere seen 10 am in nw phoenix -hovered then moved from s to n across west valley
New River · AZ, USA
Oval/almond shaped two blue lights dissapered.
Mesa · AZ, USA
a formation of 5 yellowish orange flexing noodles flying across the sky
Tucson · AZ, USA
I was watching the geminids towards about I think it was Venus ENE I am located in NE Tucson AZ The fireball was slow for other meteor
Maricopa · AZ, USA
3 lights. Would change colors then circle each other then go on and off in a line. This went on for over 45 min
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Light above South Mountain, Phoenix
Salome · AZ, USA
Three motionless orange lights appear, disappear, then reappear above Salome, Arizona.
Prescott Valley · AZ, USA
5 "stars" in a curved pattern under Orion of a bright magnitude that don't belong thereand have never been there before!
North Phoenix · AZ, USA
Two bright lights in sky- North Phoenix area- early morning November 2nd
Tempe · AZ, USA
On 11/03/04 at 16:29 hours I used a Canon Power Shot A40 digital camera (1600x1200 resolution)to photograph a parked Union Pacific Rail
Show Low · AZ, USA
4 objects moving very rapid and lazer like decending, going strait, acending then disapearing.
Tombstone to Saguaro nat park · AZ, USA
a balloon/fish shaped object hovering above the mountains ((NUFORC Note: Possible INS or Customs balloon. PD))
Fountain Hills · AZ, USA
Object morphed
Scottsdale · AZ, USA
Round to oval morphing Characteristics
Yuma · AZ, USA
V-SHAPED ORANGE GLOWING OBJECT THAT MOVED STRAIGHT UP UNTIL IT BECAME IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE.
Tucson · AZ, USA
there were 3 disks hovering in the sky flying in formations that i have nere seen before they hovered in the air then they started to c