CaseFormation2016
San Tan Valley, AZ, USA
String of lights appearing to change postition with each other.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (63 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-25
- Where
- San Tan Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.191, -111.528 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-tan-valley-az-2016-293747
Wave
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
- San Tan Valley, AZ shows up 45 times across the archive.
- 238 reports came from Arizona in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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