CaseLight2019

Fort McDowell looking toward Phoenix, AZ, USA

1-4 Bright orange hovering lights fading in and out, while staying in the same location over Phoenix.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 6300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-11-18
Where
Fort McDowell looking toward Phoenix, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1.5-2 hours on and off
Geo
Slug
light-over-fort-mcdowell-looking-toward-phoenix-az-2019-e5a986
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…

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Fort McDowell looking toward Phoenix, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Arizona logged 231 sightings in 2019.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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