Queen Creek, AZ, USA
3 of us were looking at Venus and Jupiter in the early a.m. sky, when we noticed a large ball of light about the brightness of Venus.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-01-26
- Where
- Queen Creek, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- A few seconds
- Geo
- 33.249, -111.634 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-queen-creek-az-2016-65e1ac
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
- Queen Creek, AZ shows up 47 times across the archive.
- 238 reports came from Arizona in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% 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.