Tucson, AZ, USA
Bright dark orange colored light with varied speed and direction disappearing while traveling straight into the atmosphere.
Report quality: High73/100
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
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-01
- Where
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 32.222, -110.926 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tucson-az-2014-66ff9d
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
January 2014 was a busy month for Tucson, AZ: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 426 reports logged in Tucson, AZ.
- This case is one of 302 Arizona reports filed in 2014.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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