UFOMYST
CaseFormation2016

Maricopa, AZ, USA

Strange cluster of bright white lights over the southwest sky

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-02-19
Where
Maricopa, AZ, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
33.058, -112.048 · exact
Slug
formation-over-maricopa-az-2016-cb27f2
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

  • One of 70 documented reports from Maricopa, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 238 sightings in 2016.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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