Tempe, AZ, USA
Multi-colored, roundish, very bright light moving extremely fast across the night sky in more than one direction.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-05-14
- Where
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1.5 seconds
- Geo
- 33.415, -111.909 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-tempe-az-2020-460872
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
- This is one of 116 reports logged in Tempe, AZ.
- This case is one of 224 Arizona reports filed in 2020.
- Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% 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.