CaseLight2014

Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Three bright, large, orange orbs over Scottsdale.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-01-09
Where
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
33.509, -111.899 · exact
Slug
light-over-scottsdale-az-2014-c87c43
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Scottsdale, AZ reports filed in January 2014.

In context

  • Scottsdale, AZ shows up 172 times across the archive.
  • 302 reports came from Arizona in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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