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Tempe, AZ
Arizona · Maricopa County · Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metro
Tempe is a large city in Arizona with a population of 186,419. Residents earn $77,643 per year, which is 3% above the national average.
3.4
/5.0
B
Good
186,419
Population
4,663/sq mi density
$77,643
Median Income
$42,371 per capita
$421,900
Home Value
$466,198 Zillow
$1,623
Median Rent
30.9% income on rent
75°F
Avg Temperature
347 sunny days/yr
452
Violent Crime/100K
3,776 property/100K
B
Overall
3.4 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
A
Economy
4.1 / 5.0
$77,643 median income, 4.0% unemployment
B+
Affordability
3.6 / 5.0
$421,900 home value, $1,623/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
452 violent crimes/100K (19% above avg)
A+
Education
5.0 / 5.0
49.5% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings
70
Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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Mines
8
Active and inactive mining sites tracked by the Mine Safety and Health Administration
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Historic Markers
1
Officially designated historical markers from the Historical Marker Database
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UFO Sightings Near Tempe, AZ
70 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Tempe, AZ.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| East mesa/tempe, AZ | 2013 | Bright lights in Formation Over Tempe, East Mesa/Apache Junction |
| Tempe, AZ | 2013 | Ascending lights seen over east valley. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2013 | Dark silent oval craft that was silhoutted against the white clouds lit by the full moon over Tempe AZ. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2013 | Strange red-orange spherical objects travelling in single file formation in the night sky. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2013 | When I looked up in the sky, it looked like oval shaped big green mint color flash dropping and going straight down. Last about ten sec |
| Tempe, AZ | 2012 | Very fast moving red and blue orv over Mesa, AZ |
| Tempe, AZ | 2012 | Amber/Red-colored Chinese lanterns |
| Tempe, AZ | 2012 | Photos of an unknown creature resembling both an amphibian and an armadillo who is seen holding a wand in his left hand at the end of w |
| Tempe, AZ | 2012 | Object with fiery tail shot off into the sky |
| Tempe, AZ | 2012 | Fireballs turn into jelly-saucers |
| Tempe, AZ | 2012 | Fireball shaped object flying from east to west then took a sharp turn south before heading back east then just disappears into the sky |
| Tempe, AZ | 2011 | Green Illuminated disc hovering over Tempe,AZ in front of Aircraft |
| Tempe, AZ | 2011 | Loud pulsating "woor...woor" noise shook apartment complex walls and set off car alarms at night in Tempe AZ |
| Tempe, AZ | 2011 | DARK YELLOW ORANGISH BALL |
| Tempe, AZ | 2010 | Orange, glowing, floating circular object over Tempe. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2010 | Saucer shape, flying over Tempe, 6-7 white lights making a pattern as flew south. June 2, 2010 at apx, 9:10pm. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2010 | Bright siver inverted pie-shaped craft flying above Tempe, AZ vanishes completely on bright sunny day. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2010 | Globes of light in sky over tempe arizona, moving in a quickly repeating pattern but staying in one area. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2010 | At approximately 4:45 PM on Tuesday March 16th 2010, I was in my work parking lot in Tempe Arizona, when I noticed two very white objec |
| Tempe, AZ | 2010 | Tiny neon blue light ufo wittnessed by three in Tempe, Arizona |
| Tempe, AZ | 2009 | Three "star-looking" crafts flying in random directions in the middle of the day. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2009 | Bright white light in the Phoenix evening sky. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2009 | A fireball spotted in southern Arizona 6/23/09 at about 8 pm |
| Tempe, AZ | 2009 | extremely bright balloon-like object at high altitude, drifting west for 45 min. ((NUFORC Note: Possible high-altitude balloon. PD)) |
| Tempe, AZ | 2009 | Bright circular light travels quickly and silently from NW to SE becomes brighter turns oval shapped zigzags abruptly and disappears. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2009 | High altitude night flare over residential area? |
| Tempe, AZ | 2008 | It appeared to be a large white star, but it was slowly moving NNE. It sped up, changed into 2 smaller red lights, then vanished. |
| In flight, AZ | 2007 | Orange triangle viewed by passenger from flight over Arizona desert |
| Tempe, AZ | 2007 | Night sky flashes in Tempe illuminating entire sky. 6 total flashes. All occured within a minute. There was no sound. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2007 | saw a small blinking cloudlike object fly directly overhead from my backyard at night. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2007 | ((HOAX??)) Large triangle shaped object with several lights on the bottom flew over tempe |
| Tempe, AZ | 2007 | low vapor sound in sky, accompanied ground rumbling |
| Tempe, AZ | 2007 | Star like objects flickering and flying very fast in the day time. No sound. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2007 | Stark white object flying over Tempe Arizona in strange non-linear aeronautical movements. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2007 | Fast flying triangle shaped object with blinking lights over South Phoenix, and Tempe, AZ. ((NUFORC Note: Probably flares. PD)) |
| Tempe, AZ | 2006 | Numerous incidents over the last few months occuring over Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, AZ |
| Tempe, AZ | 2006 | Tempe Az Black Dot 10 seconds traveling N to S very fast and quite |
| Tempe, AZ | 2005 | 3 light triangle stayed perfectly still and then shot off fter 3 seconds of stillness. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2004 | Light over tempe |
| Tempe, AZ | 2004 | Two objects near the moon hover move and disappear. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2004 | Bright ball of light seen hovering over Phoenix. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2004 | BRIGHT light falling, hour later light leaving south |
| Tempe, AZ | 2004 | bright light in eastern sky above treeline (Venus??) |
| Tempe, AZ | 2004 | 5 lights in a saucer shape hovering and disappearing over phoenix metro area |
| Tempe, AZ | 2003 | Brilliant Red Starlike object in east sky on 11-20-03 in Tempe AZ |
| Tempe, AZ | 2003 | Noontime sighting on a sunny, cloudless day of a long, brightly glaring craft that disappears from view. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2003 | FLASHING LIGHT/ NO MOVEMENT/VERY BRIGHT AND HIGH IN THE SKY |
| Tempe, AZ | 2003 | STRAGE ROD-LIKE UFO SEEN OVER TEMPE ARIZONA |
| Tempe, AZ | 2002 | VERY BRIGHT BLUE/WHITE SPHERE SIGHTED TEMPE,AZ, HEADING 260 9NOV2002 2133 HRS. |
| Tempe/phoenix (city line), AZ | 2002 | Moving White DOT near Phoenix Sky Harbor Int. Airport |
| Tempe, AZ | 2001 | a missle/warhead type object over the tempe sky |
| Tempe, AZ | 2001 | Star-like light visible with the sun risen |
| Tempe, AZ | 2001 | The movement away from me was too quick to be a blimp, and the change in direction to sudden for a plane. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2001 | i witnessed a craft that had one bright light seperate into 3 smaller lights, form a triangluar pattern and then they began to rotate a |
| Tempe, AZ | 2001 | Two disc/round objects were observed by 4 people Saturday April 14 4:30pm for approx. 10 minutes in Tempe AZ |
| Tempe, AZ | 2001 | Large, shape changing, luminescent changing , direction changing, object traveling at a constant speed from East to West in the South |
| Tempe, AZ | 2001 | We observed an object that appeared metalic and reflected light in the sky over Tempe, Az |
| Tempe, AZ | 2000 | While walking on broadwalk on south west corner of Tempe lake heard and saw purple wavering across night sky about 7 stories above. |
| Tempe, AZ | 2000 | Flashes over the Southern horizon |
| Tempe, AZ | 2000 | U.F.O. seen over Tempe AZ at 4:14 am 9/2/2000 |
| Northwest tempe, AZ | 1997 | We saw 5 red lights, in a V formation, from the north to the south, in a fifteen minute period. |
| Tempe, AZ | 1997 | Nothing WE have, could have done what we all saw that night. |
| Tempe, AZ | 1997 | I was in tempe with a bunch of my friends when we saw a group of about 5-7 lights in the sky. They seemed to stay in the same place. Th |
| Tempe, AZ | 1997 | Phoenix Lights |
| Tempe, AZ | 1996 | Huge pearl-like object over South Mountain |
| Tempe, AZ | 1996 | Man sees two bright lights moving very strangely. "Too slow to be meteorite, too fast to be satellite." |
| Tempe, AZ | 1995 | Woman, 6 miles E of Tempe, sees 3 obj. plummet very fast toward ground. Perform incredible maneuvers, rise back into sky. |
| Tempe, AZ | 1993 | My friend and I saw a triangle made of smaller triangles fly over us at a low altitude. |
| Tempe, AZ | 1985 | Unexplained light cast into otherwise dark area blasts out of sight. |
| Tempe, AZ | 1968 | Late 1960's UFO Sighting Tempe Arizona Triangle Formation Objects |