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)
Oro Valley · AZ, USA
Disk shaped UFO with center lights hovers over mountains before lights go out in rapid succession.
Tucson · AZ, USA
Description is the same as Washington DC event in the 50’s Glitter type objects .Still scanning .... A-10’s scrambled out of D
Peoria · AZ, USA
Surprised by diffuse appearing object.
Lake Pleasant · AZ, USA
Linear formations at the bottom of Lake Pleasant, Arizona
Oro Valley · AZ, USA
Bright, rectangular, motionless object over Oro Valley/Tucson
Laveen · AZ, USA
((HOAX??)) Ufo craft caught in Phoenix, AZ, near South Moutain. ((NUFORC Note: Contact information provided is bogus. PD))
Tucson · AZ, USA
We were driving north on Irvington rd. It was a cloudy day, I just happened to look up and in between the clouds I sat a small sphere o
Laveen · AZ, USA
Ufo caught in slow motion nfacing South Moutain in Arizona. ((anonymous report))((NUFORC Note: No photo received here. PD))
Superior · AZ, USA
Flashes of white light followed by non-periodic, lesser intensity orange "burning" lights of longer duration.
Apache Junction · AZ, USA
White round or square box UFO w/silver object along side at times.
Arlington · AZ, USA
Silver Cylinder Flying Dark over the Far West Valley
Apache Junction · AZ, USA
White round disk.
Mesa · AZ, USA
I was watching my 2 year old son and happened to look up towards the sky. There was a black helicopter flying by first and then after i
Phoenix · AZ, USA
100 plus lights were crammed very close to one another all moving together. ((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))
Lake Roosevelt · AZ, USA
Giant row of lights horizintal acriss the sky stretching acriss ~quarter mile with a dome at the bottom. (Space Link satellites. PD))
Tonto Basin · AZ, USA
We saw a rectangular object with a row of smaller tic tac shaped lights, not sure if it was one craft or many.
Kingman · AZ, USA
N sky 2 balls of light broke into a line of ~30 fire balls in a line traveling W to E. ((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))
Camp Verde · AZ, USA
Cluster of stars headed northbound silence in the area. ((NUFORC Note: Satellites? PD))
Queen Creek · AZ, USA
2 cigar shaped crafts traveling toward sw 3 lights on each craft .
North Rim · AZ, USA
A line of lights resembling a snake or worm crawled across the sky. ((NUFORC Note: String of Space Link satellites. PD))
Quartzsite · AZ, USA
Perfect line of small lights (stars? Lit up by a beam moving across the night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))
Phoenix · AZ, USA
Phoenix 1 am two sets of what appeared as red lights changed formation for several minutes; then one formation moved north and vanished
Camp Verde · AZ, USA
Odd clouds and streaks in the sky, six chevron, metallic like objects circled for one hour than dispursed.
Phoenix · AZ, USA
9:00am rectangular metallic colored object in the northwestern sky at about 70 degree. Object hovered for 40 minutes. A jet flying at a
Mesa · AZ, USA
I saw a bright light in the southern sky. I grabbed my phone and shot the video as it head east north east.