CaseChanging2017

Apache Junction, AZ, USA

I saw three elongated oval lights in my peripheral vision. I quickly pulled off the dark highway and turned off my headlights. I watche

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-05-11
Where
Apache Junction, AZ, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
33.415, -111.550 · exact
Slug
changing-over-apache-junction-az-2017-81b1dc
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

  • This is one of 48 reports logged in Apache Junction, AZ.
  • This case is one of 208 Arizona reports filed in 2017.
  • Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

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.