CaseFlash1998
Quartzite, AZ, USA
When this object made its turn to the south, it was a 90 o turn in an instant, not a radius trun like an aircraft.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-30
- Where
- Quartzite, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5-10 sec.
- Geo
- 39.021, -98.095 · fallback
- Slug
- flash-over-quartzite-az-1998-060ddd
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In context
- Quartzite, AZ shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 70 reports came from Arizona in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 1.3% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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