Sedona, Arizona

What's documented

Sedona is a city of approximately 10,000 in the Verde Valley of central Arizona, set among red-rock sandstone formations (Schnebly Hill Formation, ~280 Ma Permian). The city has been one of the principal centers of the U.S. New Age movement since the late 1970s. The 'Sedona vortex' framework — proposing that several named sites around the city (Bell Rock, Cathedral Rock, Boynton Canyon, Airport Mesa) are points of concentrated geomagnetic or 'energetic' activity — was popularized by Dick Sutphen and Page Bryant in the early 1980s. The framework has no accepted geophysical basis. The Sedona-area UAP sighting record is dense and continuous from the 1950s, with regional investigators including Tom Dongo (resident since the 1980s) cataloguing thousands of reports. The proximity of Sedona to Camp Verde and to the Bradshaw and Mogollon Rim ranges places it within the broader Arizona high-desert UAP corridor that includes the 13 March 1997 Phoenix Lights flight path.