CaseLight2016

Gila Bend (west of; on I-8), AZ, USA

Lights from sky following car near Gila Bend I-8.

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: 660s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-13
Where
Gila Bend (west of; on I-8), AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-12 minutes
Geo
32.948, -112.717 · exact
Slug
light-over-gila-bend-west-of-on-i-8-az-2016-68d4a3
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

  • Gila Bend (west of; on I-8), AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 238 reports came from Arizona in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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