CaseLight2017

Prescott, AZ, USA

Glowing and pulsing orange and dark yellow orb, about 100ft up in the air. Floating in a northbound direction on the west side of the c

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-02-26
Where
Prescott, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
34.540, -112.469 · exact
Slug
light-over-prescott-az-2017-34c4d0
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

  • Prescott, AZ shows up 48 times across the archive.
  • 208 reports came from Arizona in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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