Maricopa, AZ, USA
Two lateral oddly colored lights suddenly appear near Maricopa Az., fly north about 3000 feet then disappear.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-03-11
- Where
- Maricopa, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.058, -112.048 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-maricopa-az-2013-b8724e
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…
Local cluster
March 2013 was a busy month for Maricopa, AZ: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 70 reports logged in Maricopa, AZ.
- This case is one of 235 Arizona reports filed in 2013.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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