CaseLight2005
Gold Canyon, AZ, USA
orange lights in sky
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (20 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-07
- Where
- Gold Canyon, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- 33.371, -111.437 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-gold-canyon-az-2005-1935b5
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
- Gold Canyon, AZ has 22 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 204 reports from Arizona.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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