Arizona Sightings
07-08-1947 Phoenix, AZ
Mr. William Rhodes of Phoenix made three photographs of a shoe-heel shaped object flying in the air over Phoenix. He took his film to the local newspaper and it was published on the front page of the Phoenix morning paper the next day.
10-14-1947 Cave Creek, AZ
Oct. 14, 1947; 11 mi. NNE of Cave Creek, Arizona. Noon MDT. Witnesses: ex-AAF fighter pilot J.L. Clark, civilian pilot Anderson, third man. Watched 45-60 seconds while one 3-foot "flying wing"-shaped object, which looked black against the white clouds and red against the blue sky, flew straight at an estimated 380 m.p.h., at 8-10,000 feet, from NW to SE.
1948 Tucson, AZ
A white mist-like domed disc-shaped object was photographed flying over the desert flats near the Rincon Mountains.
1949-04-28; Tucson, AZ
April 28, 1949; Tucson, Arizona. 5:45 p.m. Witnesses: Howard Hann, Mr. Hubert, Tex Keahey. One bright, sausage-shaped object was observed for 40 minutes while it rolled and flew fast.
05-09-1949 Tucson, AZ
May 9, 1949; Tucson, Arizona. 2:30 p.m. Witness: M/Sgt. Troy Putnam. Two round, flat silvery objects, estimated to be 25' in diameter, flew 750-1,000 m.p.h. in a banked but steady manner.
1953
A local air-traffic controller and a police helicopter pilot reportedly trackedabout 60 unidentified aircraft over Tucson Monday, but federal author- ities arenot investigating. Tucson International Airport radar picked up the aircraft at12:15 a.m. Monday. Radar monitored the objects for about 90 min. The radarpicked them up southwest of the city, near Ryan Field, and lost them as theyflew northeasterly through Redington Pass. The controller reported that 15 groups of four to six objects each were monitored on the radar. the UFOs weretravelling at about 250 knots, or 288 mph. The tower called the police pilot onduty and said that they had some targets but no transponders. The transpondersare radar transceivers that automatically identify individual air craft for airtraffic controllers. If you don't turn your transponder on, all it shows up as(on radar) is a blip. The pilot tried to follow the objects and did see somelights,but was unable to catch up with them. The pilot was up about 4,000 feetand they were up at 7,000 feet. The Air Force said d-m jets stop flying by 10:30pm and knew of no other military flights in the area at 12:15 AM Monday.
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
WIKIEUP - The Arizona Department of Public Safety said the people were sober and on their way to, not from, Las Vegas.The motorists reported an an other-worldly light on the western horizon followed their car as they traveled toward Las Vegas shortly before dawn Thursday. However, an expert on heavenly bodies said later Thursday that the light probably was nothing more than the planet Mars.A member of a group that compiles reports of UFO sightings does not agree. At this point, officers of the DPS don't really care what it was. They are tired of all the hoopla. A motorist, who DPS spokesman Alan Schmidt said wants to remain anonymous, told an officer that she, another adult and her two sons were driving to LasVegas, Nev., on U.S. 93 early Thursday when she and her sons spotted a strange orange light that hovered above the western horizon and appeared to follow the car as it traveled north. The object was said to "pulsate like astar" and was described as appearing "about twice as bright and twice as bigas a star."Patrolman Veronica Minch, Schmidt said, had spotted the object earlier."She thought little of it and went on about her business," Schmidt said."Meanwhile, down the road, these people see it."The DPS phoned Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, "to see if any rockets or balloons had been launched,"Schmidt said. "They said they had no activity like that."
