CaseUnknown2013

Scottsdale, AZ, USA

I have seen this odd light formation on several occasions (times seen; about, 6 times over 15 years)the first time was back in 1990 tr

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-03-01
Where
Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
<1 hour
Geo
33.509, -111.899 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-scottsdale-az-2013-166a02
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…

In context

  • One of 172 documented reports from Scottsdale, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 235 sightings in 2013.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.