Cave Creek, AZ, USA
Three amber/yellow lights in triangle formation seen in Arizona night sky, then disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-14
- Where
- Cave Creek, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 SEC
- Geo
- 33.833, -111.951 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-cave-creek-az-2011-8eb90a
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
- Cave Creek, AZ shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 163 reports came from Arizona in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.