Cottonwood, AZ, USA
The past 3 nights my husband and I have seen between an orange to a red glow light that appears moving erratically then disappears and
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: 259260s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-04-30
- Where
- Cottonwood, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 days in a row about 1 m
- Geo
- 34.739, -112.010 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-cottonwood-az-2021-6cb174
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
- Cottonwood, AZ shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 128 reports came from Arizona in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.