Sacaton, AZ, USA
Was exiting Gila River Reservation, Sacaton. Noticed three lights blinking, just hovering near the desert, east of Interstate 10.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-02-26
- Where
- Sacaton, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.077, -111.739 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-sacaton-az-2016-2e1a08
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
- One of 5 documented reports from Sacaton, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 238 sightings in 2016.
- Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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