San Tan Valley, AZ, USA
Red glowing oval/bell shaped object moves very quickly across sky and then slows down.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-22
- Where
- San Tan Valley, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.191, -111.528 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-san-tan-valley-az-2013-91caf4
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
4 reports came out of San Tan Valley, AZ in December 2013 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- San Tan Valley, AZ has 45 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 235 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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