Chino Valley, AZ, USA
3 lights in evening sky. One fades away and other two fly playful formation
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-06-24
- Where
- Chino Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.758, -112.454 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-chino-valley-az-2020-8eceac
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 10 reports logged in Chino Valley, AZ.
- This case is one of 224 Arizona reports filed in 2020.
- Formation craft made up 5.2% of 2020s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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