Tempe, AZ, USA
My girlfriend and I saw two lights hovering over the Tempe area. We were looking south to southwest.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 960s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-30
- Where
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 16 minutes
- Geo
- 33.415, -111.909 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tempe-az-2016-633b0a
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
- Tempe, AZ shows up 116 times across the archive.
- 238 reports came from Arizona in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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