Queen Creek, AZ, USA
Snake like formation with hundreds of lights sighted above Queen Creek, AZ at 8pm on 12/18/17.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-12-18
- Where
- Queen Creek, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 33.249, -111.634 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-queen-creek-az-2017-340d91
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…
Local cluster
Queen Creek, AZ logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2017.
In context
- One of 47 documented reports from Queen Creek, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 208 sightings in 2017.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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