UFO Encounter in Sahuaro Heights

I was out jogging near my house in the Sahuaro Heights area of Casas Adobes around 5:30 to 6:00 p.m.—right around sunset—when something strange caught my eye. An oval-shaped object, roughly the size of a small car, was moving slowly northward. At first, I thought it was an orange-colored blimp and expected to see a banner trailing behind, but nothing followed.

As it moved directly into my line of sight, the object began to descend. That’s when I realized it wasn’t a blimp at all. The object came toward me silently—completely silent. I tried to get out of the way, but it moved faster than I could react, gliding just overhead and stopping above my neighbor’s house, no more than ten feet away and about twenty feet off the ground.

It was a smooth, silver-polished UFO—windowless, seamless, and eerily quiet. The orange hue I’d initially seen was just sunlight reflecting off its surface. On its underside, a circular, rotating core spun steadily, with three evenly spaced blinking red lights. I assumed it was some kind of engine.

Terrified, I ran back inside my house. A few minutes later, I cautiously stepped outside again... and it was gone. Completely vanished. To this day, it remains one of the scariest experiences of my life.