UFOMYST
CaseLight2014

Quartzite, AZ, USA

Orange light rising above eastern horizon then traveling easterly out of sight. ((NUFORC Note: Witness is pilot. PD))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-01-17
Where
Quartzite, AZ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
39.021, -98.095 · fallback
Slug
light-over-quartzite-az-2014-289742
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…

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In context

  • Quartzite, AZ has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 302 reports from Arizona.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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