Buckeye, AZ, USA
Bright, bright lights that multiplied from 2 - 7 light/danced in the night sky over the estrella mountain traveling W 3 hrs /palo verd
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-21
- Where
- Buckeye, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 hrs
- Geo
- 33.370, -112.584 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-buckeye-az-2004-5009ea
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
- Buckeye, AZ shows up 57 times across the archive.
- 200 reports came from Arizona in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.