CaseLight2020

Chandler/Gilbert, AZ, USA

The lights were in close formation, quickly shifting and creating patterns/designs, then appearing to dissolve into each other.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-05-09
Where
Chandler/Gilbert, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
33.306, -111.841 · exact
Slug
light-over-chandler-gilbert-az-2020-f32687
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…

In context

  • Chandler/Gilbert, AZ shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 224 reports came from Arizona in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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