Fort McDowell looking toward Phoenix, AZ, USA
1-4 Bright orange hovering lights fading in and out, while staying in the same location over Phoenix.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 6300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-11-18
- Where
- Fort McDowell looking toward Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1.5-2 hours on and off
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-fort-mcdowell-looking-toward-phoenix-az-2019-e5a986
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Fort McDowell looking toward Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 231 sightings in 2019.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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