Apache Junction, AZ, USA
I saw three elongated oval lights in my peripheral vision. I quickly pulled off the dark highway and turned off my headlights. I watche
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-11
- Where
- Apache Junction, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 33.415, -111.550 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-apache-junction-az-2017-81b1dc
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 48 reports logged in Apache Junction, AZ.
- This case is one of 208 Arizona reports filed in 2017.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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