San Tan Valley, AZ, USA
Red orange flickering strobe lights in San tan valley sky 12/20/13 8:30 pm.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-20
- Where
- San Tan Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.191, -111.528 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-san-tan-valley-az-2013-f22253
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…
Local cluster
San Tan Valley, AZ logged 4 reports in the single month of December 2013.
In context
- One of 45 documented reports from San Tan Valley, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 235 sightings in 2013.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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