Rio Rico, AZ, USA
A huge band of slightly rectangular lights appx 300degrees NW sky appeared out of thin air and looked extremely CLOSE!
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: 11s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-05-17
- Where
- Rio Rico, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10-12 seconds
- Geo
- 31.471, -110.976 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-rio-rico-az-2018-627c16
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
- Rio Rico, AZ shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 92 reports came from Arizona in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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