El Mirage, AZ, USA
Dozen or more strange lights flying by in the sky above western Arizona.
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-28
- Where
- El Mirage, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 12 minutes
- Geo
- 33.613, -112.325 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-el-mirage-az-2017-baffad
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
- El Mirage, AZ has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 208 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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