Maricopa, AZ, USA
Circular ball of light radiating intense orange hue in sky SE of Maricopa and disappeared suddenly.
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-03-21
- Where
- Maricopa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 33.058, -112.048 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-maricopa-az-2014-79e3f8
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
- Maricopa, AZ shows up 70 times across the archive.
- 302 reports came from Arizona in 2014.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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