Cave Creek, AZ, USA
Large round, lighted disc hovering silently, then moves out of sight at a very high rate of speed, as I took video of this occurrence.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-06-05
- Where
- Cave Creek, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 33.833, -111.951 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-cave-creek-az-2017-eeaf19
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 has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 208 reports from Arizona.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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