Black Canyon City, AZ, USA
Near I-17 interstate a formation of orange soft steady glowing obs equally spaced apart were observed by my husband and I. At the time
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-12
- Where
- Black Canyon City, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.071, -112.151 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-black-canyon-city-az-2013-9b7045
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
- Black Canyon City, AZ has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 235 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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