CaseLight2020
Fountain Hills, AZ, USA
rotating colored light on a mountain top
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-09-25
- Where
- Fountain Hills, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 33.612, -111.717 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-fountain-hills-az-2020-0d89db
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
- Fountain Hills, AZ shows up 16 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%.
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.