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)
Munds Park (west of) · AZ, USA
V-shaped w/ 5 amber colored lights on the bottom
Prescott · AZ, USA
rectangular object and sound of object.
Mesa (north of) · AZ, USA
I saw a black craft floating in the air, no noise or anything. When I got out of my car to see what was going on, it left.
Tempe · AZ, USA
My friend and I saw a triangle made of smaller triangles fly over us at a low altitude.
Galesburg · AZ, USA
I worked at a car company that made front ends for Cadillac (front wheel drive axels), I was on my second break for my second shift job
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Large rectangle object making no noise.
Phoenix · AZ, USA
A massive object in the sky, that shined a light in front of me that was very weird....
Yuma · AZ, USA
Yuma- Arizona 1993 Large Triangle shaped craft.
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Several incandescent football-shaped craft appeared and manuevered in ways unlike any Earthly craft.
Bullhead City · AZ, USA
In around 1993,perhaps 92, I was sitting in my hotel room with my mother when a child around my age (9) came running in and said, "
Flagstaff (I17 south of) · AZ, USA
Bursting through the web.
Sedona · AZ, USA
numerous UFO's erratically streaming from red rock formation "guarded" by gov't black helicopters
Phoenix · AZ, USA
This was a brief encounter on a clear night. The silence of the passing of the object is what struck me the most.
Tucson · AZ, USA
Small circle of white lights observed to at first drift across sky, then radically change direction and accelerate out of sight.
Ganado · AZ, USA
For many years since 1978 to 2004 there have been different types U.S military air craft flying over my families home and my neighbors
Prescott · AZ, USA
On a sunny afternoon in the spring of 1993 I had my first visual day sighting with 3 other family members. The object appeared to be ho
Mesa · AZ, USA
driving south bound on gilbert road approaching the superstition freeway the sun bounced off something in the air and it caught my atte
Yuma · AZ, USA
It happened while waiting for the school bus to arrive. The sun had not come up yet and it was still fairly dark. I noticed an amber li
Palm Springs/Phoenix (enroute on highway) · AZ, USA
Massive Triangular Vessel with Dim Blue Glow to its underbelly
Mesa · AZ, USA
Back in the early 1990s during the Early DARK Evening I witnessed a set of lights over NorthEast Mesa Arizona heading from East to West
Tucson · AZ, USA
saw long craft on mothers day night back in the early 90's
Peoria · AZ, USA
Dark triangle-shaped craft silently moved over house, traveling from north to south.
Show Low · AZ, USA
3 lights "disguised" as a plane
Arizona (northern) · AZ, USA
the alien stood there in a form I could be comfortable with while looking at him.
Sierra Vista · AZ, USA
7/20/91, 1630, Sierra Vista AZ, 2 to 3 minutes, flattened egg, matte black, observed by myself