| Name | Where | When | What | Duration | Direction où a été vu | Job | Information Source | NUFORC | |||||
| Nom | Age | Où | Quand | Quoi | Observation | Durée | Direction Where Seen | Métier | Source d'information | url | |||
| Trig Johnston | 22:20:00 to 22:40:00 |
From north west. Orbs. Craft. Could see stars through. Says lights were on top, but strange | Visual | 20 minutes | Airline Pilot | IKWIS | Mike Fortson | 2002:03:13 | |||||
| James & Fawn Clemens | 42 | Kingman | 20:00:00 | Five Intense bright Amber Orbs in V formation. Appeared just right of the Hale-Bopp comet | Binoculars | over Nevada’s Lake Mead | Randall Fitzgerald | http://www.examiner.com/skepticism-in-national/were-the-1997-arizona-lights-a-psychological-warfare-experiment-part-one | |||||
| Vicinity of Paulden | 20:16:00 | Bizarre cluster of red lights moving very rapidly across the night sky The man who called, a rational, sober-minded and eloquent sounding person, described having witnessed with his family a very strange cluster of distinctly red-orange lights, which consisted of 4-5 red lights "in the lead," followed by a single light which appeared to be "standing back from the others." The lights in the lead gave the impression of being in a "V" formation, somewhat like a wedge or boomerang in shape. |
former police officer | NUFORC | |||||||||
| Paulden | 20:20:00 | Police Officer Retired | IKWIS | ||||||||||
| Denis Monroe & Wife | 47 | Paulden | 20:13:00 | Five Approaching peach or light orange-colored Intense lights. Kite Shaped Formation. The lights were large and soft, not focused or concentrated. I thought I saw stars between the lights. Thinks he saw stars between the lights. |
5 minutes | Passed Overhead | Police Officer Retired | Randall Fitzgerald | http://www.examiner.com/skepticism-in-national/were-the-1997-arizona-lights-a-psychological-warfare-experiment-part-one | ||||
| Seth Adams | Dewey-Humboldt | It is one of the biggest things I have ever seen. Enormous. Changed shape then left very fast with no sound. It just went pffshhh |
15mn ??? | IKWIS | Nippon Special | ||||||||
| Ross Nickle & Wife & Children | 90 miles north of Phoenix | 20:10:00 | Summary : Five stars approaching.Changed color from white to red. “I saw some lights in a very small pattern. And what they really looked like at that point was just dim stars, several of them in a very tight pattern. They were white like stars when they were coming towards us. And at that point, they changed colors and went from white to red. They were just overhead at that point and they were, in my estimation, not very high off the ground. I’m guessing a thousand feet. And there was absolutely no sound. During the whole time, from the start to finish, there was absolutely no sound.” |
Visual | North, approaching | Randall Fitzgerald | http://www.unsolved-mystery.com/937/ | http://www.examiner.com/skepticism-in-national/were-the-1997-arizona-lights-a-psychological-warfare-experiment-part-one | |||||
| John Widener | Chino Valley | Five Lights in a triangular pattern, slow | Visual | North and East of Prescott Airport | Randall Fitzgerald | ||||||||
| More than 2 independant groups of Comet Watchers |
Prescott valley | Lights | Binoculars | Randall Fitzgerald | |||||||||
| Name | Where | When | What | Duration | Direction où a été vu | Job | Information Source | NUFORC | |||||
| Nom | Age | Où | Quand | Quoi | Observation | Durée | Direction Where Seen | Métier | Source d'information | url | |||
| Ann Baker | Prescott valley XXX | 20:13:00 | RF:5 bright white lights in V formation. I Don't know if star like or extended light sources. Could see stars between the lights. No solid mass. Then it actually changed formation. It was now in a half-circle with five red, bright lights. Turned on itself, changed configuration, color and shot away toward south LL:What was described to me was that the 5 white lights in a V formation transitioned to an arc and changed to red in the process of doing the accelleration -- all of it happening in one motion, the color shift, the formation change and the sudden departure. |
Visual | Overhead | Randall Fitzgerald | Larry Lowe | Fortson | History Channel | ||||
| Michael Rainwater & 3 friends | Binoculars | Randall Fitzgerald | |||||||||||
| Terry Proctor | North Scottsdale 56th street + Carefree Hwy |
20:28:00 | Small 5 white lights in V formation, going north to south; Formation shape evolving | Video. 43Sec. | US Dep. Defense Contractor | Randall Fitzgerald | Video Docu | ||||||
| Alan Morey & Steve LaChance | 36 & ? | Scottsdale | “At first the lights appeared pale orange in color, but through the binoculars we could see a little red light on the port side of each of the five larger orange lights,” Morey told me. “They were five independent objects because we could see stars between them. One light was behind the others in a delta wing configuration. But then the formation tightened. The lights covered an area twice the size of my fist if I extended my arm to the sky.” |
High Powered Binoculars |
Overhead | Machinist(MUFON) & PanAm pilot |
Randall Fitzgerald | ||||||
| Mitch Stanley | 20 | close to Scottsdale | v-formation and discerned that each light was actually two lights on aircraft with squared wings. “They were planes,” he would tell the Arizona Republic. “There’s no way I could have mistaken that.” |
10inch Telescope | Amater Astronomer | Randall Fitzgerald | |||||||
| 3 pilots | Over Lake Pleasant (North Phoenix) | V formation of bright white lights identified as a flight of CT-144s (tudors) at 19000 feet. Identifying themselves as Canadian Snowbirds flying tudors headed to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Though this answer satisfied the America West crew, they still found the other pilot’s behavior to be unexplainable. Why are they flying in a show formation at night with their landing lights on and pointed downward? Middleton kept wondering. Why are they intentionally trying to draw attention to themselves? Based on the radio traffic Middleton subsequently overheard, these were questions on the minds of numerous commercial airline crews in the air that night. |
Visual | à gauche, plus haut | America West 757 | Randall Fitzgerald | |||||||
| Greg Aguirre and his wife | North Phoenix | Five Lights in V formation Two of his fists held at arm’s length would cover the formation. No navigation lights were visible and no matter how hard he tried to envision this as a flight of conventional aircraft, his mind recoiled from the awareness that the formation was flying much too slowly for planes, at a speed comparable to blimps. They made absolutely no noise. Looks like an object. |
Visual | Overhead – 3000-6000 feet | Southwest Airlines pilot | Randall Fitzgerald | |||||||
| Max & Shala Saracen | 34 | north phoenix XXX | V shaped formation of white lights. flying silently at 20 or 30 miles per hour. Saracen says two of his fists held up to the sky would have obscured the object. “It was a solid mass of metal, but we saw no structure. It blocked the stars out. My wife saw some humanoid shapes at some of its windows. The movie, Independence Day, went through my mind. It was very spooky, this gigantic ship blocking out the stars and silently creeping across the sky. Without a doubt, we believe it was extraterrestrial from another world.” |
Visual | Overhead – 1000 feet | Laser printer technician & aeronautics engineer |
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| Name | Where | When | What | Duration | Direction où a été vu | Job | Information Source | NUFORC | |||||
| Nom | Age | Où | Quand | Quoi | Observation | Durée | Direction Where Seen | Métier | Source d'information | url | |||
| Dana Valentine & his father | “We could see the outline of a mass behind the lights,” the younger Valentine claimed. “It was more like a gray and wavy distortion of the night sky. I know it’s not a technology the public has heard of before.” |
over their house at a height they guessed to be no more than 500 feet |
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| Tim Ley, his wife Bobbi, & their son al and grandson |
54 | Squaw Peak | About 20:15:00 20:16:00 over house about 20:20:00 |
watched in astonished awe from their front yard as the five lights seemed to float straight toward them. “By the time it got about a mile away we decided it was definitely one huge structure, because the lights were so rigidly maintaining their relative positions to each other,” Ley later reported. “We also noted that we still had not heard any kind of sounds. Where we live, up in this small mountain valley, we can hear the slightest engine noises from miles away. At this point, especially because of its apparent immense size and slow speed, it began to dawn upon us that this was a real UFO.” Ley described the v-shaped structure as slightly darker than the night sky and so huge that it covered several entire neighborhood blocks, with “the length of the arm passing over us probably about 700 feet long.” He estimated that it floated at 30 miles per hour, skimming silently about 100 feet above the roof of their home. |
Visual | 15mn | Overhead – 100 feet | electronics repair shop manager |
Randall Fitzgerald | Tim Ley's blog | 1997:03:19 | ||
| Sue Watson, Erin Watson | 21 | South East of Squaw Peak one mile south of Camelback Mountain |
20:30:00 20:35:00 20:36:00 |
They saw seven bright, whitish lights approaching their home. “We could see the outline of the craft. We couldn’t see stars through it. It was boomerang shaped, and going slowly and soundlessly.” Watson estimated the craft to be 10 of her fists in size, its underside lit up in an amberish color. Giddiness from this sudden excitement prompted the entire Watson family to reflexively wave at the object as it went overhead, “disappearing really fast to the south.” |
Visual | Overhead | boy’s school administrator | Randall Fitzgerald | IKWIS | ||||
| Ozma Linderman | South Scottsdale, Est Phoenix | 20:35:00 | One solid craft, a void in between the lights blacked out the stars. It slowed down or stopped for a second, it then configured in an oval, turned red and then shot strait up… |
Visual | short | Overhead | Mike Fortson | Unsolved Mysteries | |||||
| Bree Crownover & four friends | A few miles east of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport, from his workplace in northwest Tempe |
Noticed red/orange lights in the northern horizon on a flight path intersecting airliners traveling east to west for landing at Sky Harbor. “the red/orange lights seemed to be lower in altitude and oblivious to the fact they were flying directly toward commercial aircraft traffic. They were in a v-formation, three red/orange lights in front, two red/orange lights behind and to each side. There seemed to be no ‘body’ to this aircraft, only lights. When directly overhead, it was so large it wouldn’t fit into direct vision. I had to shift my eyes to see the entire object. At this time, we realized that this was not one object, it was five or more, with one light in back trailing slightly. The lights moved slowly to the south.” |
Visual | Overhead | |||||||||
| Mike Fortson & Nannette | 44 & 43 | South of Phoenix | 20:30:00 20:35:00 20:36:00 |
From the patio they viewed a boomerang-shaped object--about the size of eight of his fists held up to the sky--moving silently and slowly south. Three bright white beams of light projected from the front, trailed by five solid, non-blinking red/amber lights on the side and rear. All the lights appeared to be angled down at the ground. The craft seemed to pass under a 737 airliner in its landing approach path. Observed Fortson: “There was a bright bottom quarter moon setting in the west, and as the front of the v-shaped craft entered the light of the moon, this black chevron object became translucent. We could still see the bottom quarter moon through the object, but the moon turned a dingy yellow. As the craft exited the bright moon, it became a solid black object again, and disappeared to our south." |
Visual | About 2 minutes |
48° over horizon | Safety Products Salesman, Real Estate Agent. |
+NUFORC | 1997:04:03 | |||
| Name | Where | When | What | Duration | Direction où a été vu | Job | Information Source | NUFORC | |||||
| Nom | Age | Où | Quand | Quoi | Observation | Durée | Direction Where Seen | Métier | Source d'information | url | |||
| Bradley Evans & Kris | Driving north just past Casa Grande along I10 |
the lights changed to a yellowish-white color and moved into a diamond-shaped formation traveling south along I-10. “I had no sense at all that this was a solid object,” Dr. Evans later related. “I could see background stars between the lights. In an instant the lights were directly overhead (the car’s moon roof was open.) While our car was traveling at about 63 miles per hour, and the lights apparently moving south and east, they seemed to hold directly overhead for about five to 10 minutes, still holding formation |
Visual | Overhead – 1800 feet | |||||||||
| Stacey Roads, mother & daughter, & two family friends |
10 miles south of Casa Grande on I10 |
20:42:00 | Stacey Roads looked at the car clock and noted the time--8:42 p.m. Here she picks up the narrative. “The object was huge, an immense black shape. It came over the freeway, using I-10 as a map of some sort. We were under its shadow for over two minutes and we were traveling 80 miles per hour in the opposite direction. It was a huge triangular metal mass, with three lights far apart, and seams of metal on the underside. It was only a few thousand feet off the ground and this thing blotted out the stars. This thing was so big you could land planes on it. I could have held open a newspaper to the sky and not been able to block out the object. Like in the movie Independence Day, that’s how big the thing was. I couldn’t focus my camera to fit it all in, so I didn’t get a shot of it. It was headed for Tucson. All five of us are in agreement the thing was not from this planet.” | Visual | Randall Fitzgerald | IKWIS | |||||||
| Tucson | 21:00:00 | IKWIS | |||||||||||
| Anonymous (by NUFORC) | Lat=34.174885, long=-112.136593 |
~20:15:00 | The lights stayed on the left of my car, apparently flying over the southbound part of the interstate. I could clearly see there were five lights, one at the tip and two each on either side, in the V shape. The lights were white, but not pure -- slightly yellowish, like an incandescent light bulb. [nota : rest consistent with point light sources] |
2 minutes | NUFORC | 2006:03:12 | |||||||
| Terry Mannsfield | 60 ? | South of the Hills near Squaw peak |
20:37:00 | Had a meeting in her home. Along flight path of the big triangle. South51. Perceived something wrong with the stars. Only then saw physicall structure. A satiny dark grey surface. Clear impression this is extra human. But a feeling of calm came back. Came back in meeting but didn't think about talking about about it. Only 2 days later. Dampening down of her emotional response. Same for 2 around her. Manipulation of people mental states. No fear. |
Visual | Overhead | Larry Lowe (direct) |