Quartzite, AZ, USA
Off-white light moving in the sky, then stopped, a smaller light fell to the ground from the main object and the main object left.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-16
- Where
- Quartzite, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.021, -98.095 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-quartzite-az-2004-23ba55
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
- This is one of 12 reports logged in Quartzite, AZ.
- This case is one of 200 Arizona reports filed in 2004.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
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.