Chandler, AZ, USA
Flashing multicolored object spotted above Chandler AZ apparently traveling outward into space in the high southern skies.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-02-04
- Where
- Chandler, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 33.306, -111.841 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-chandler-az-2018-0ee314
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
- Chandler, AZ shows up 147 times across the archive.
- 92 reports came from Arizona in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.