UFOMYST
CaseFlash2008

Quartzsite, AZ, USA

Bright Light, looked like Jupiter but too yellow, dimmed as it slowly moved South

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: 52s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-16
Where
Quartzsite, AZ, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
45-60 secs
Geo
33.664, -114.230 · exact
Slug
flash-over-quartzsite-az-2008-b9132c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Quartzsite, AZ has 11 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 178 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Report

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