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South Tucson, AZ
Arizona · Santa Cruz County
South Tucson is a small town in Arizona with a population of 4,601. Residents earn $33,734 per year, which is 55% below the national average.
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/5.0
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Fair
4,601
Population
4,467/sq mi density
$33,734
Median Income
$19,753 per capita
$152,300
Home Value
$212,452 Zillow
$968
Median Rent
34.3% income on rent
71°F
Avg Temperature
330 sunny days/yr
2,436
Violent Crime/100K
17,960 property/100K
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Overall
2.2 / 5.0
Fair overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
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Economy
2.1 / 5.0
$33,734 median income, 4.8% unemployment
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Affordability
4.1 / 5.0
$152,300 home value, $968/mo rent
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Safety
1.0 / 5.0
2,436 violent crimes/100K (541% above avg)
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Education
1.7 / 5.0
8.3% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings
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Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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Mines
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Historic Markers
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UFO Sightings Near South Tucson, AZ
200 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near South Tucson, AZ.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tucson (north of), AZ | 2014 | Red and orange orb over the foothills in Tucson, Arizona. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | Two red blinking lights for a few seconds. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | Bright dark orange colored light with varied speed and direction disappearing while traveling straight into the atmosphere. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | Floating lights. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | Silver object appears in small cloud, both disappear. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | 6 bright orange spheres in the sky N of the Catalina Mountains. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | Fluorescent green fireball seen from Catalina over the Santa Catalina Mountains. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | Tucson sighting from Catalina Foothills: 4 lights, triangle formation, moving low and silent in a northwest direction in the Tucson sky |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | Silver or white cigar shaped aircraft with no wings. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | Black and silver writhing serpent like craft reflecting sunlight in direction to sun traversed sky over Tucson above airplanes which pa |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | I've never seen something moving so fast and so large and then to simply disappear. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | REPORT FROM ATP PILOT: 3 orange orbs size, distance, altitude unknown WSW of Picture Rocks, visible 30 secs, then blinked out. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | 4 orange glowing light orbs seen low in the sky. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | 4 Orange Lights Illuminating In Succession. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2014 | Flew low over Tucson from the north to the south Below flying aircraft bright red and absolutely no noise. No flashing. Just steady red |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Streaked in like a meteor only to slow down and break into 5-6 orbs, stop, hover 3 sec, dance up and down in the sky |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Orange object appeared to be circular in Tucson AZ. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Unusual Lights Above Catalina Mountains in Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Bright blue light moving quickly over Tucson early morning. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | White lights seen at night to the north of Sabino Canyon. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | 3 bright orange lights seen over east Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | 3 |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Little dots in a formation of orange. Some red. One fell out of the sky on fire the others faded away. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Multi-colored light formation in the shape of constellation, one burst into flames. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Three large orange lights in a row. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Five bright amber lights in the Northwest over Tucson. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Looked like a bright orange fire flying across the sky of Tucson. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | A dozen fast moving orange/peach colored lights west of Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Object over Tucson pursued by Air Force jets after entering local air space. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | A fleet of 20-30 glowing orange orbs flying in linear formation across the nightime horizon in Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Aug 6, 9pm it was in space looked like a star was still then moved it dimmed and faded away. too far for any details |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | 6 red/orange orbs seen in Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | One white light, solid, heading N. to S. and one red light, solid, heading W.to E. both overhead and seeminly near to each other. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Sabino Canyon Tucson Arizona night UFO sighting. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2013 | Lil yellow lights fading in and out in the sky. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | Stange Craft seen in the night sky over Tucson Az. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | 6 objects Over Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | In Tucson Az I saw a point of light moving over the Catalina Mountains. It appeared to be rotating or tumbling. It was about 9:05 Am, |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | Pure white oval object seen at the Catalina Mountain Range, Tucson, Az. 01/06/12 |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | Orange/red ufo over Tucson blinks out |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | Brownish shaped changing object. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | Bright, orange, triangular light north of Tucson moving towards the south then turning east and disappearing |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | I WAS AUDITIONING "THE MOON" FOR BACKDROP PICTURES OF AN ALBUM COVER. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | Light in tucson sky |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | 15 - 20 yellow orange object on straight line trajectory |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | Walked outside to see super moon & saw 1 first, almost looked like a plane on fire was low no sound -another followed when 2 of us were |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | Massive rumbling for 10 minutes without sighting. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2012 | Looked similar to shooting star, but flew much slower and suddenly lit up with incredible brightness and disappeared |
| Tucson, AZ | 2011 | Cigar shaped UFO spotted in Tucson, AZ on May 14, 2011. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2011 | 2 pulsating orb like lights hovering, ascending straight up, then across and saw its triangular shape and lights |
| Tucson, AZ | 2011 | Triangle of three light green orbs flying North over Tucson, AZ before shooting directly up and disappearing. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2011 | UFO sighting Tucson, AZ, Sept 19, 2011 at 8:30 pm |
| Tucson, AZ | 2011 | Rectangular Grid over Catalina Mountains in Tucson, AZ |
| Tucson, AZ | 2011 | Bright purple orb dancing in clouds in tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2011 | star like object going straight up |
| Tucson, AZ | 2011 | Mothership? releasing several smaller ships. ((NUFORC Note: We wonder whether this is a serious report. PD)) |
| Tucson, AZ | 2011 | White flash lighted up the sky over Tucson, Az 05/28/11. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2011 | Chinook helicopters escort strange object over Tucson AZ |
| Tucson, AZ | 2010 | FORMATION OF LIGHTS BLINKING THEN DISAPIERING |
| Tucson, AZ | 2010 | ((HOAX??)) Tucson, AZ Saucer caught on Video!! |
| Tucson, AZ | 2010 | Three, then four lights moving unnaturally fast, stopping abruptly then going straight up unnaturally fast; all with no sound. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2010 | 5 stationary blinking lights in a diagonal line, NW Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2010 | Bright orange solid lights hanging stationary over city. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2010 | Object in sky with ball of fire dangling from it, dripping sparklets of fire |
| Tucson, AZ | 2010 | TUCSON, ARIZONA |
| Tucson, AZ | 2010 | Triangle aircraft with 3 lights above tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2010 | 12/13/10 tucson az. lites lasted 6 to 10 sec. 4 lites south of tucson on 12/13/10 |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Fake Stars and Fake Airplanes in Arizona |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Bluish object looked like a tracer bullet from WW2 footage, and then burst into flames as it moved across the sky to the north. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | A red dot in the sky orbiting a white dot, while the white dot moves across the sky making circles. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | One Hugh object with 3 color lights and Two others smaller objects with white lights |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Bright, rectuangular object suddenly disappears in day sky. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Cylinder shape made out of "line" lights in Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | UFO's ARE REAL |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Saw what appeared to be stars shooting "laser" lights down, also an object emitting other objects in to another |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | This is a 3rd follow-up to the two previous nights reports. The same flash of light was seen south of the Leo constellation between the |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | This is a follow-up from last nights report. We again observed a light flash of ten repetitions each about 60 seconds apart in the same |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Hugh circuler orange UFO over Tucson,object was not moving |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Ten minute stationary pulsating white light 80 degrees elevation 60 seconds between pulses 2000 MST. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Witnessed 6-7 blinking crafts for the second day in a row. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Red and Orange lights as many as 10 UFO"S seen In Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Strobing chevron-shaped ' ((NUFORC Note: Probable star sighting, we suspect. PD)) |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Witnessed 4-5 strange flashing objects moving erratically in the sky. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Three Shinny objects spotted over Tucson AZ |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Object seen to apparently explode-minutes later 2 large military helicopters in area |
| Tucson, AZ | 2009 | Huge light, in the size of a 747, seen in cloudy skies |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | ((HOAX??)) They were in my sight for more than 20 minutes, changed their position very frequently many times!! |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | jUST DRIVING AROUND THE CORNER CAMINO DE OESTE HEADING TO COTARO FARMS SAW SEVERAL LARGE OBJECT TO MY RIGHT ....SHALLOW IN THE SKY REM |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | North Tucson sighting near Mt. Lemmon. Moved South, 3 lights moved in formation and fourth light below it moved across sky until it di |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | more details on report filed two hours earlier |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Bright multi-colored cigar shaped object that moved too quickly and erratically to be a jet. ((NUFORC Note: Possible star. PD)) |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | crescent shaped object crosses my path |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | plane like object descended too fast. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Large, glowing, floating, red fireball/orb spotted in the sky for a very short time before it disappeared. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Saw huge mass with many rapidly blinking lights moving slowly and soundlessly accross sky. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Burning Embers Sighted in Sky Near Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Triangular object, flying slowly south, with seven bright lights pointing outward and down from bottom of craft. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Changing shape low in Davis-Mothan AFB landing pattern. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | 3 bright white looking metallic objects hovering over Tucson. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Small blue-green orb speeding across sky to the west then disappeared |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | One spherical silver object was sighted for 15 seconds in the central Tucson skies below a plane with contrails heading East . |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Unidentified object sighted east side tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | A fast traveling object that covered great (irregular) distances while blinking multiple colors extremely fast. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Dark, triangular-shaped object traveling slowly to the south-east. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Star in broad daylight |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | This shape reminded me of the Phoenix lights because it was a Triangle. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Pale orange lights |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | White disk shaped object traveling from the north to the south |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | UFOs Caught on Videotape in Tucson Arizona August 5th 2008 |
| Tucson, AZ | 2008 | Moving dull star with irregular strobe pattern |
| South tucson, AZ | 2007 | I saw five orbs or flashes changing position over Tucson during the day over a plume of smoke. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | A daylight sighting of a white sphere near a chemtrail over Tucson, AZ was observed from schoolyard by parents and teachers. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | I was sitting in my backyard talking with a friend on my cell phone. Four bright red lights in the southwest caught my eye. The lights |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | Object seen over Tucson Mountains; possible missile launch? |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | small Sesna size orange glowing orb traveling fast |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | Last night I went out to see if I could spot the comet. Instead I noticed that there was a “star” that seemed to be moving. It would |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | Golden triangular object reshaping into golden half moon or dome before disappearing. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | Lights move around each other and go opposite ways |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | Spinning Chrome/Red disk |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | typical saucer shaped craft Stationery in the sky appearing to be watching military air show. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | Sceptic observation of 3 "fighter jet sized" oblong, black and silver light flashing crafts. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | Seven bright orange lights in the western sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly flares over Gila Bend Firing Range. PD)) |
| Tucson, AZ | 2007 | ROW OF 4 MAGENTA LIGHTS LOW IN THE DARK SKY THAT SUDDENLY VANISHED |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | colored lights over the mountains around Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | disk wisk through sky very low at high rate of speed left cloud as it disappered. No sound. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | smoke trails and lights |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | A fleet of white light round in shape over Mt. leamon travling at a high rate of speed speed set the apart from a nomal air craft. I wa |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | Helicopter Orbits Bright Red Light(s) |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | Bright triangle shaped lights over Tucson skies |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | A close view from tucson, AZ. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | Large object with multi color running light observed flying above Tucson Arizona |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | A close view from Tucson, AZ |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | I've seen a lot of lights in the sky, but never anything like this. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | Red light hovering over Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | Fast and silent, bright and bewildering |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | THe object was pursued by F-14s from the nearby airbase |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | It was a silvery bright object traveling east to west over mountains in the city of Tucson. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2006 | Brightly lit object SW Tucson sky, moves sideways |
| Tucson, AZ | 2005 | bright object in the western sky, traveling north to south, with fan like trail. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2005 | three points of light in the shape of a triangle moving across the sky |
| Tucson, AZ | 2005 | ((NUFORC Note: Likely sighting of Sirius. PD)) Moving star-like objects and Red Flashing Lights. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2005 | Two red objects near a jet plane in Tucson, Arizona |
| Tucson, AZ | 2005 | They almost looked flamelike, very bright, very large - amber or orange-colored. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2005 | saucer shaped craft s landed in tucson arizona"s open range cattle farm. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2005 | Brilliant light over the Catalinas |
| Tucson, AZ | 2005 | We saw a white, steady light move across the Northern sky from East to West in less than 1 second in Tucson, Az. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2005 | Object seen and photographed flying in and out of "chemtrail" in Tucson Arizona |
| Tucson, AZ | 2005 | 3 lights in the shape of a triangle north of Tucson, AZ |
| Tucson, AZ | 2005 | Dual Diamond Swinging Kite Object(s) |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | BRIGHT ORANGE/YELLOW OBJECT FILMED AT SUNSET IN WESTERN SKY |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | Extremely fast, huge, bright fireball. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | I had a hard time falling a sleep last night because I have renal cancer so I decided to take the golf cart around the course it was 3: |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | Tucson Mysterious Streaks of Light |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | Light to the far west of Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | Circlular rotating lighted low flying craft west of Ina at Silverbell Rd, object moved slowly then instantly disappeared. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | The object moved in a unexpectable speed from east to west and dissapeaers in completely blue sky. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | Bright Sphere Falls Towards Horizon, then Moves Horizontally across Tucson Night Sky, May 16th, 2004 |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | I was watching the geminids towards about I think it was Venus ENE I am located in NE Tucson AZ The fireball was slow for other meteor |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | Horizonal group of five lights |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | there were 3 disks hovering in the sky flying in formations that i have nere seen before they hovered in the air then they started to c |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | Phasing Cigar UFO over NE Tucson AZ |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | Sphere shaped object hovering low in sky |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | It shoot out a golden light |
| Tucson, AZ | 2004 | Silver balls in the sky AZ |
| Tucson, AZ | 2003 | I was outside with my husband and friend's when I looked up and saw something in the sky.one of the craft's looked closer than the |
| Tucson, AZ | 2003 | Two spherical ufos seen in Tucson skies from 2:00 to 2:04 in the afternoon, approximately 45 degrees altitude, above the mountains, nor |
| Tucson, AZ | 2003 | Two white spheres suddenly appear in clear , NE Tucson skies in daylight , moving eastward, disappearing after 4 min. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2003 | Visible by the naked eye, appear to be several bright, triangular objects in the East and West sky. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2003 | very large and slow moving |
| Tucson, AZ | 2003 | BLUE JELLY LIKE SUBSTANCE IN THE MIDDLE. A GOLD BAND ALL AROUND IT. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2003 | The sighting resembled a shooting star, but the band of light was much thicker and extremely defined. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2003 | 4 lights hung in the sky |
| Tucson, AZ | 2003 | 3 starlike lights moving together in unison very bright and low, then disappearing together. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2003 | Whitish Grey somewhat Egg/Oval in shaped slowly hovering way up in sky, folding in half/quarter and back to Oval/Egg again. |
| Tuscon, AZ | 2003 | Chevron craft - 2 bright white/blue lights |
| Tucson (nearest town), AZ | 2002 | Stationary white star-like light took off at high speed and disappeared when we looked, strange flash above, ground shaking. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2002 | Flash of blue lights, then fast movement out of sight |
| Tucson, AZ | 2002 | A bright light travelling high in the sky appeared out of nowhere when it diminished in size and quickly disappeared. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2002 | It was about 6:47 and we were driving to Sonic when all of the sudden I noticed a silver disk hovering in the air then two more appeare |
| Tucson, AZ | 2002 | 5 Crafts in unity for about .5 seconds move incredibly fast and disappeared immediately. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2002 | Orb at Red Roof Inn, Tucson, AZ |
| Tucson, AZ | 2002 | Bright glowing lights flying in the clouds in Tucson |
| Tucson, AZ | 2002 | Sigting |
| Tucson, AZ | 2002 | ligth in the sky got brigth then got dim while moving. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2002 | Bright soaring orb in Tucson seen 5/4/02 at 5am. 3 witnesses |
| Tucson, AZ | 2002 | Diamond shape, with colored flashing lights and a strange noise. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2002 | Two large bright glowing lights flying in the clouds in Tucson. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2001 | the ovel shape went faster then the jets , and could do moor movements of flight |
| Tucson, AZ | 2001 | I was running a night shift in the middle of the desert,using a track hoe to feed an incinerator.I am a 4 year vetran of the army and m |
| Tucson, AZ | 2001 | Flying creature in the sky, with form of human dark skin. And moved in a floating motion. ((NUFORC Note: Serious report?? PD)) |
| Tucson, AZ | 2001 | At aproximently 15:00 hours on 5/26/01 I woke up to my dogs barking. When I went outside to investigate I was Shocked by a VERY bright |
| Tucson, AZ | 2000 | Shiny silver object that reflected the sun emerged in the south sky moving east to west then abruptly disappeared. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2000 | Around 8:30 PM a bluish green object was seen traveling in a northwesterly direction. It was not only odd because of the color but was |
| Tucson, AZ | 2000 | In the western sky there were a semi circular formation of lights twinkling. White and brilliant in a formation. The sky apeared to hav |
| Tucson, AZ | 2000 | Easter weekend,I was visiting my family,we were having a barbecue in the back yard,Around fifty feet away is a large treeƺ birds come |
| Tucson, AZ | 2000 | daytime white \grey shaded irregular object. "floating " then gone approx. 30 -60 feet in size. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2000 | Craft with bright flashing color-changing lights |
| Tucson, AZ | 2000 | A series of 4 or 5 lights, blinking and moving in a westward direction. No pattern at all to the lights. |
| Tucson, AZ | 2000 | Witnessed an extremely fast-moving object, moving across the lower sky toward the horizon in a Northwesterly direction. Object emitted |
| Tucson, AZ | 2000 | Bright white with flashing red and blue lights ... no sound ... not moving. |