CaseLight2004

Lake Havasu City, AZ, USA

Bright reddish-orange light southeast of the city phased on and off in an inconsistent north-to-south-to-north again pattern.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-03-24
Where
Lake Havasu City, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
<1 minute
Geo
34.484, -114.322 · exact
Slug
light-over-lake-havasu-city-az-2004-af89a6
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

  • Lake Havasu City, AZ has 80 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 200 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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