UFOMYST
CaseFormation2020

Maricopa, AZ, USA

Orange spherical light came on about 1 mile out and 1/2 up then 3 spheres appeared simultaneously to the left and the right of the cent

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-28
Where
Maricopa, AZ, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
33.058, -112.048 · exact
Slug
formation-over-maricopa-az-2020-2703ae
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Maricopa, AZ shows up 70 times across the archive.
  • 224 reports came from Arizona in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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