Arizona/California border, CA, USA
On AA flight 2249 from DFW to John Wayne Airport I noticed a very bright light to the right of the aircraft as it was approaching the C
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-16
- Where
- Arizona/California border, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- ~20 minutes
- Geo
- 41.814, -96.134 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-arizona-california-border-ca-2014-e0bb68
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 1 reports logged in Arizona/California border, CA.
- This case is one of 869 California reports filed in 2014.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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