Apache Junction, AZ, USA
Omg. I was just out back and towards Florence southeast of the valley I saw 3 distinct separate bright lights a distance from each ot
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-05-16
- Where
- Apache Junction, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.415, -111.550 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-apache-junction-az-2018-58058d
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Apache Junction, AZ reports filed in May 2018.
In context
- Apache Junction, AZ shows up 48 times across the archive.
- 92 reports came from Arizona in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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