Tucson, AZ, USA
Saw two red/orange dots rising to the southeast; they weren't blinking like a plane, just slowly rising.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-10-05
- Where
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 32.222, -110.926 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-tucson-az-2020-929191
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
- One of 426 documented reports from Tucson, AZ in the UFOMYST archive.
- Arizona logged 224 sightings in 2020.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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