Funky little Arizona town is hailed the 'new Roswell' after strange UFO sightings

An Arizona town with fewer than 10,000 residents is being dubbed the new Roswell after becoming one of the top spots in the US for UFO sightings.

The desert town of Sedona, which is located approximately 180 miles outside of Phoenix, sits in both Coconino and Yavapai Counties, which had a combined 484 UFO sightings between 2000 and 2023, according to an Axios report.

These numbers put the area well above the national average of 34 people per 100,000.

Psychic and UFO tour guide John Polk, 56, told DailyMail.com that he sees extraterrestrial activity nightly from his home in Sedona, where he's lived for the last eight years.

The native Floridian told DailyMail.com: 'There's tons of activity. It's easy to see it.'

He believes Sedona is such a high-traffic area for UFOs due to the vortexes the city is known for.

Sedona is also a very spiritual place and is known as the 'door to the world' due to vortexes that are believed to open portals to other dimensions and provide healing energy.

Polk said Sedona has quartz along the ley lines - invisible gridlines that often fall into triangles that are believed to carry powerful energy - that help build electromagnetic energy that creates electricity, and ultimately, a pathway for ETs.

'I believe that's what's happening in Sedona,' Polk told DailyMail.com. 'They're traveling over the gridlines.

'The better the energy, the more you'll see.'

The Daytona Beach native also noticed a lot of UFOs seem to appear and then suddenly disappear in thin air and he believes that's due to the mythical ley lines and that aliens are using them to slip between dimensions.

He explained it like turning stations on a radio, which is done by change frequency and vibrations.

'I think that's what they can do,' he said. 'Everything is about vibrations and frequency.'

Polk regularly leads tour groups of 20 to 50 people and prepares for a tour by meditating to bring the best results.

He says that UFOs 'seem to follow' him.

'You'd see stuff whether I was here or not. But when I am there, you see a lot more because I know how to work the energy out there,' he said.

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For Polk, who moved to the city to live with his aunt who had breast cancer, he's always believed in UFOs and had his first encounter when he was around 15 or 16.

While in his bed in Florida, he saw something that looked like the moon but was moving over the ocean.

After blacking out, he claims he awoke to find three four-foot creatures standing on his balcony peering into the glass.

They eventually came into his room before he blacked out again.

'I totally believed in them my whole life,' Polk said.

His mother, who is also a psychic, believed in aliens too and he says she worked adjacently to the FBI for many years.

She was privy to confidential information and a lot of what she told him growing up then came true, he claimed.

His father, a university president, was always a skeptic, but that hasn't stopped Polk from inviting ETs in with 'love, light and consciousness'.

Sedona has been likened to Roswell, New Mexico, which has the most famous potential alien spotting area in the US.

An extraterrestrial spacecraft allegedly crashed there in July 1947 and many conspiracy theorists believe aliens were captured by the government and the military attempted to cover up the incident.

The area is a hotspot for UFO sightings, with 92 residents per 100,000 spotting one between 2000 and 2023, according to Axios.

There have also been claims that Sedona has an 'alien base' hidden just outside the town in a desolate area, The Daily Express reported.

'There's a base there where the crafts are, there's a number of them high in the mountains in remote areas of the planet and they're here now and they're extraordinarily distressed about the state of affairs [of humanity],' lawyer Danny Sheehan, who has worked on UFO whistleblowers cases, told The Express.

He claimed 'huge, seven feet tall, extraordinarily skinny, thin, kind of bowed over and reminding people of a praying mantis' people live inside the base.

The paranormal was not associated with Sedona until the 1970s when psychic Paige Bryant visited the town and declared certain places were vortexes.

'She was not drawing from anything other than what she said she intuited from the land and she described these as places that had a spiritual or mystical type of energy emanating from specific spots in around Sedona,' McGivney told radio show KJZZ.

'And, you know, coincidentally, she was not like a wilderness backpacker. So all the vortexes are conveniently almost...within one mile from the road.'

She was not the first person to feel the special power of Sedona, but she was the first to name the experience.

Before her the psychic researcher Dick Sutphen brought groups of people to the town for spiritual retreats to help them experience the psychic energy emitting from the place.

Dennis Andres and his mother visited the city when he was moving to studying at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, he told Arizona State University.

When they came across a rock formation in Bell Rock, he found himself getting out of the car to climb and as he went higher, he felt better.

'We asked people if something was happening in Sedona. And they would always respond it is the vortex,' he told the university.

'Sedona is a place of spiritual energy. We cannot measure it with mechanical devices; we can only measure it with the human body. I can explain why some people feel this energy and others do not. You do not have to believe in it, and you do not have to reject it either.'